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A new study led by Profs. Xu Tao and He Shunmin from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has ...

The Haenyeo, an all-female group of divers on South Korea’s Jeju Island, spend much of their lives underwater without ...

Also known as selective breeding, artificial selection is the human-guided cousin of evolution by natural selection. Instead ...

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A multiyear investigation pieced together ancient DNA from strains of the plague, bringing together researchers from across ...

Evolution of human traitsIcons depict cultural and biological ... And there are a half dozen distinct genetic adaptations that protect Africans against malaria (one has the significant drawback ...

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