Pace of ecology drives the tempo of visual perception across the animal kingdom
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Cellular-level preservation of cutaneous spikes in an Early Cretaceous iguanodontian dinosaur
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Anthropologists Still Can’t Agree On The Answer
The chin is one of our most familiar features, yet scientists still debate why we evolved it. Here’s…
Parents might age faster or slower based on how many kids they have
Numerous factors affect how fast we age, from the environment down to our DNA. Even the number of…
Ecological and social pressures drive same-sex sexual behaviour in non-human primates
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Five rules for scientifically credible nature markets
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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
Model residuals of linear regression and logistic regression Linear regression and logistic regression are regular models to fit…