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Meet the Scientist Using Micro-CT Scans to Explore Big Questions About Evolution
Corinthia Black studies the anatomical features of fishes and spiders to understand how life on Earth takes shape ...
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Beanbag genetics
Today a bitter dispute about the nature of biology is underway. A simple bag of beans may be what tips the balance ...
Is this really a dire wolf? Here’s how the ‘de-extinct’ pups compare to the real thing.
The private company Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected dire wolves through genetic editing. The resulting trio, ...
Ancient DNA research aids de-extinction efforts and reveals surprising dire wolf ancestry
Colossal Biosciences made global headlines when they announced that they had successfully brought the dire wolf back from ...
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Every Living Creature on Earth Comes from a Single Ancestor — And It’s Much Older than We Thought
A groundbreaking new study has pushed the timeline of life’s origin further back than previously thought. Researchers have determined that the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) – the microbe from ...
Survival of the bigots: The troubling roots of MAGA’s pronatalism
Donald Trump and his acolytes are now part of a long tradition of social-Darwinist regimes, bent on restricting immigration ...