Dna
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The Deepest Links
July 06, 2009
Evolution is a tinkerer. When novel features evolve, old parts are co-opted for new roles.
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How to Build a Better Tree of Life
July 01, 2009
An unconventional approach to analyzing molecular sequences allows researchers to construct larger evolutionary trees.
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What the Cow Genome Tells Us
June 08, 2009
The recent sequencing of the bovine genome will dramatically transform more than just the cattle industry.
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The Parasite Puzzle
April 27, 2009
How one of Africa’s deadliest pathogens uses on-the-fly, genetic costume changes to outsmart our immune system.
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The Achilles’ Heel of Aging
April 20, 2009
Understanding the biological basis of senescence may allow us to delay or prevent the degenerative declines long accepted as an inevitable part of getting older.
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How to Reign Indefinitely
April 08, 2009
An unusual form of asexual reproduction by a Japanese species of termite raises the question: What is the value of sex?
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Into the Landscape of Genomic Evolution
February 12, 2009
How the tools of genetic sequencing are changing the way we study the origins and development of life.
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Blogging the Origin
January 28, 2009
Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, chapter by chapter.
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Extending Darwinism
January 06, 2009
Is there more to heredity, natural selection, and evolution than genes and DNA?
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A Still Curious Case
December 24, 2008
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button grapples with age-old fears of death and aging, physiological processes that modern science is only beginning to understand.
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Seed Picks 2008
December 23, 2008
Seed selects the year's outstanding book releases, from Mary Roach's sex book, Bonk, to E.O. Wilson's ant colony opus, The Superorganism.
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How We Evolve
October 07, 2008
A growing number of scientists argue that human culture itself has become the foremost agent of biological change.
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Wing of Bat, and Mouse’s Leg
August 27, 2008
Deciphering how a paw becomes a wing confirms some of eco-devo's basic hypotheses.
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The Evolution of Language
September 25, 2007
What songbirds, dancing, and knot-tying can tell us about why we speak.
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Egg On His Face
November 30, 2005
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Gene Thieves
November 22, 2005
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A Genetic Basis for Alcoholism
October 03, 2005
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Innovation
Let There Be Light
Astronomers will soon find scores of Earth-sized exoplanets, but imaging them may be decades away. That is, unless NASA decides to build a starshade.
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Ideas
Into the Uncanny Valley
New findings shed light on a century’s worth of bizarre explanations for the eerie feeling we get around lifelike robots.
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World
Signs from Above
The release of an apocalyptic movie prompts NASA to debunk planetary rumors, fowl play shuts down the LHC, and the Catholic Church discusses alien life.
