Study Warns of Major Toll ‘Chronic Stress’ Could Be Taking On Humans
Humans may be biologically unequipped to handle the relentless pace and pressures of modern life, a new study…
Homo sapiens-specific evolution unveiled by ancient southern African genomes
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Meet The Tree That Produces The Only True Blue Fruit On The Planet. Hint: It’s Not Actually Blue
The quandong’s fruit appear intensely blue, but without producing any pigment at all. Here’s this blue fruit evolved…
Convergent genome evolution shaped the emergence of terrestrial animals
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Loss of macroevolutionary species fitness explains the rise and fall of clades
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SPAmix: a scalable, accurate, and universal analysis framework for large-scale genetic association studies in admixed populations | Genome Biology
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A Carnian theropod with unexpectedly derived features during the first dinosaur radiation
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A novel gene expression stability metric to unveil homeostasis and regulation | Genome Biology
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Low population genetic structure in five Chilean Nothofagus species and high fluctuating asymmetry in Nothofagus pumilio x N. antarctica putative hybrids | BMC Ecology and Evolution
While the various Nothofagus species and their putative hybrids differ substantially in morphology, there were no diagnostic genetic…
From a 20-Foot Poop Pile, Scientists Uncover the Secrets of Giant Sloths
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The Biodiversity Cell Atlas: mapping the tree of life at cellular resolution
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Breeder turnover creates allelic variation in groups of gray wolves
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