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Kat McGowan

Contributing Writer

Biology

I Contain Multitudes

By Kat McGowan
August 21, 2014
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Our bodies are a genetic patchwork, possessing variation from cell to cell. Is that a good thing?

Multicellularity
evolution

Where Animals Come From

By Kat McGowan
July 29, 2014
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Bacteria may have helped single-celled organisms make the leap to multicellular animals.

Maple leaves.
botany

The Secret Language of Plants

By Kat McGowan
December 16, 2013
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Striking evidence that plants warn each other of environmental dangers is reviving a once ridiculed field.

About the author

Kat McGowan is a journalist based in New York City and Berkeley who specializes in health and science. She is a contributing editor for Discover magazine. Her story on the failures of memory, “Out of the Past,” was selected for “The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2010.”

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