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September 8, 2008

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From a Few Genes, Life’s Myriad Shapes
Evo-devo researchers are finding that development appears to have been one of the major forces shaping the history of life on earth.
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Darwin Still Rules, but Some Biologists Dream of a Paradigm Shift
There are growing calls among some evolutionary biologists for an upgrade to Darwin, although they differ about what form this might take.
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Humans Have Spread Globally, and Evolved Locally
Modern humans appeared 50,000 years ago, but genetic drift and natural selection have recently remolded the human clay. .
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Fast-Reproducing Microbes Provide a Window on Natural Selection
Evolutionary experiments on microbes are under way in many laboratories and scientists can observe bacteria adapt over 40,000 generations of living in a beaker.
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The Human Family Tree Has Become a Bush With Many Branches
DNA is aiding fossil hunters in the search for human origins by approaching the search for human origins from a different angle.
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Human DNA, the Ultimate Spot for Secret Messages (Are Some There Now?)
If bacterium can be encoded with messages and cockroaches can be archives, why not us? .
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Life as We Know It
A timeline of major findings in evolutionary science.
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Evolution Is ...

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Projects Sought for Space Laboratory
NASA is looking to share unused space aboard the International Space Station for science experiments, officials said.
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In Parasite Survival, Ploys to Get Help From a Host
Predators want to kill and eat you. Parasites want to keep you alive as a cozy hazen in which to multiply. .
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Science of the Soul? ‘I Think, Therefore I Am’ Is Losing Force
Biologists are turning up evidence that humans are not, physically or even mentally, in a class by themselves. .
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