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In a recent paper published in the journal Genome Research, experts described the chromatin arrangement in the genomes of two ...
A new study from the University of Arizona reveals that color vision in animals evolved around 500 million years ago, much ...
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An ASU evolutionary anthropologist offers a groundbreaking theory on why humans have come to dominate the world over other ...
A new study proposes that human culture’s unique power lies not in its ability to accumulate knowledge, as once thought, but in its "open-endedness." ...
While animals already have the genes needed to degrade ethanol before yeasts began producing it, there is some evidence that ...
Rising H5N1 bird flu cases in the U.S. prompted the CDC to study the virus in ferrets, revealing it may have the potential to ...
Anecdotes abound of wildlife behaving “drunk” after eating fermented fruits, but despite this, nonhuman consumption of ...
Our primate ancestors and many other animals may have been indulging in fermented fruits and saps full of ethanol for ...
A study described the three-dimensional architecture of turtle genomes, which fold in a configuration unlike any other animal observed so far.