This year, US politics was dominated by the run-up to October elections, with science policy issues playing a role here and elsewhere around the world.
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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.
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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.
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