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Friday, November 20, 2009

Evolution of Highly Toxic Box Jellyfish Unraveled

With thousands of stinging cells that can emit deadly venom from tentacles that can reach ten feet in length, the 50 or so species of box jellyfish have long ...  > full story

Ancient Penguin DNA Raises Doubts About Accuracy of Genetic Dating Techniques

Penguins that died 44,000 years ago in Antarctica have provided extraordinary frozen DNA samples that challenge the accuracy of ...  > full story

Scientists Launch Effort To Sequence The DNA Of 10,000 Vertebrates

Scientists have an ambitious new strategy for untangling the evolutionary history of humans and their biological relatives: Create a genetic ...  > full story

Inefficient Selection: New Evolutionary Mechanism Accounts For Some Of Human Biological Complexity

A painstaking genomic and proteomic analysis has found a new evolutionary mechanism that accounts for some of the biological complexity of ...  > full story
 

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