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Saturday, November 7, 2009

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

New Clues To Extinct Falklands Wolf Mystery

Ever since the Falklands wolf was described by Darwin himself, the origin of this now-extinct canid found only on the Falkland Islands far off the east coast of Argentina has remained a ...  > full story

Speed Limit To The Pace Of Evolution, Biologists Say

A major conclusion of the work is that for some organisms, possibly including humans, continued evolution will not translate into ever-increasing ...  > full story
 

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