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Under pressure, even evolution evolves
Although Darwin’s ideas have clearly triumphed in modern biology, hints of a more Lamarckian style of inheritance have continued to ...
Repeated patterns in DNA may be missing piece of the story of human evolution
Science is just starting to unlock what we can learn from duplicated regions of DNA in the genes of humans ...
RNA plays role in cellular communication
For decades, researchers have been finding DNA and its sister, RNA, circulating in the body, outside the safe interior of ...
Evolution as opportunist
Evolution is littered with examples of opportunism. Hosts infected by viruses found new uses for the genetic material the agents ...
The surprising origins of life’s complexity
Conventional wisdom holds that complex structures evolve from simpler ones, step-by-step, through a gradual evolutionary process, with Darwinian selection favoring ...
