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Archaea packages DNA around histones in a similar way to eukaryotes, suggesting that fitting a large genome into a small space was not the original role of chromatin.
A graduate student rediscovers a snail species officially declared extinct in 2000.
The poxvirus stockpiles genes when it needs to adapt.
Decades can pass between the discovery of a new animal or plant and its official debut in the scientific literature.
Nominated as a write-in candidate as a protest against the anti-science incumbent, famed naturalist Charles Darwin won 4,000 congressional votes in a Georgia county.
In Chapter 2, "Consequences and Evolution: The Cause That Works Backwards," author Susan M. Schneider places evolutionary theory in terms of the science of consequences.
Genes from fungi, bacteria, and viruses may have helped mosses and other plants to colonize the land.
Salinella salve, an organism described as a single layer of cells, ciliated on both inner and outer surfaces and surrounding…
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