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Lenore Edman/Flickr By Leon Kreitzman / 11.22.2016 Biochemist Burmese monks know that it is time to get...
The Lena River Delta in Siberia/LandSat NASA By Dr. John Hawks / 02.08.2016 Professor of Anthropology University...
Chimpanzees use alarm calls to inform each other of danger. / Ronald Woan, Flickr Nonhuman primates clearly...
Early humans seem to have recognised the dangers of inbreeding at least 34,000 years ago, and developed surprisingly sophisticated...
The unexpected ability of an RNA polymerase ribozyme to copy RNA into DNA has ramifications for understanding...
Afghan refugee Maimuna, photographed in Kabul in 2016. Photo by Hedayatullah Amid/Epa/REX By Wendy Orent / 11.08.2017 Anthropologist...
Engraving of a tableau by Frederik Ruysch (1744) Etching with engraving / National Library of Medicine By Dolly...
The skull of a Neandertal known as Shanidar 1 show signs of a blow to the head...
Sulawesi, part of the biogeographical region of Wallacea, is home to tarsiers – tiny, goggle-eyed creatures look...
As genes are favored or phased out, human evolution continues. ktsdesign/Shutterstock.com By Dr. Molly Przeworski, Dr. Joe Pickrell, and Hakhamanesh...
Stephanie Pierce, Chris Capobianco, and Blake Dickson survey the Bay of Fundy at Blue Beach, Nova Scotia....
By Dr. Anne Reboul / 06.01.2017 Senior Researcher Institute for Cognitive Sciences-Marc Jeannerod It’s the late afternoon...
The smell of daffodils is a treat for most people, but some cannot experience the joy because...
How do they each know what to do? Tim Nowack By Dr. Craig Tovey / 07.11.2017 Professor of...
Color-changing cells in an Atlantic squid’s skin contain light-sensitive pigments. Alexandra Kingston By Dr. Thomas Cronin / 08.09.2017...
The next frontier of data storage: DNA. ymgerman/Shutterstock By Dr. Luis Ceze and Dr. Karin Strauss /...
At the Prague carnival. Photo by Matej Divizna/Getty By Dr. Robert Dudley / 12.19.2016 Professor of Integrative Biology...
What can a single person’s flu infection tell you about how the virus changes around the world?...
“Close up of The Thinker” / Photo by Brian Hillegas, Creative Commons By Dr. Michael RW Dawson...
Figure 1.14 Formerly called blue-green algae, the (a) cyanobacteria seen through a light microscope are some of...
How do they do while sleeping what we can barely do at all? Carlos Bustamante Restrepo ...
[LEFT]: In epidermoid carcinoma cells, that the protein SON (green) is localising into nuclear speckles, a substructure...
By Myron Getman / 01.01.2013 Scientist New York State Department of Health conflate: \kən-ˈflāt\, 1) to bring...
Lecture by Dr. Alistair McGrath at the Museum of London / 04.04.2017 Andreas Idreos Professor of Science...
By Tony Federico Journal of Evolution and Health (2016) Introduction Sedentary behaviors, like watching TV, have been...
By Gaia Vince / 03.07.2017 The Rock of Gibraltar appears out of the plane window as an...
Developing lizard embryo beneath placental tissues. Oliver Griffith By Dr. Oliver Griffith / 03.23.2017 Postdoctoral Associate in...
Upper teeth of a Neanderthal who lived about 40,000 years ago. Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg By Dr. Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg...
Genetic transmission is the mechanism that drives evolution. DNA encodes all the information necessary to make an...