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Icefish Study Adds Another Color to the Story of Blood

By John Rennie
April 22, 2019
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The rainbow of pigments that animals use for blood illustrates a central truth of evolution.

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Viruses Have a Secret, Altruistic Social Life

By Viviane Callier
April 15, 2019
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Researchers are beginning to understand the ways in which viruses strategically manipulate and cooperate with one another.

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Researchers Rethink the Ancestry of Complex Cells

By Christie Wilcox
April 9, 2019
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New studies revise ideas about the symbiosis that gave mitochondria to cells and about whether the last common ancestor of all eukaryotes was one cell or many.

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New Squid Genome Shines Light on Symbiotic Evolution

By Laura Poppick
February 19, 2019
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Researchers hope that the genes of a glowing squid can illuminate how animals evolved organs for beneficial bacteria.

A row of skulls ending with homo sapiens, foreground, found at The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Human Origins.
Abstractions blog

Artificial Intelligence Finds Ancient ‘Ghosts’ in Modern DNA

By Jordana Cepelewicz
February 7, 2019
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With the help of deep learning techniques, paleoanthropologists find evidence of long-lost branches on the human family tree.

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Fragile DNA Enables New Adaptations to Evolve Quickly

By Viviane Callier
February 5, 2019
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If highly repetitive gene-regulating sequences in DNA are easily lost, that may explain why some adaptations evolve quickly and repeatedly.

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Gene Drives Work in Mice (if They’re Female)

By John Rennie +1 authors
Jordana Cepelewicz
January 23, 2019
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Biologists have demonstrated for the first time that a controversial genetic engineering technology works, with caveats, in mammals.

Abstractions blog

Jellyfish Genome Hints That Complexity Isn’t Genetically Complex

By Jonathan Lambert
January 8, 2019
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Jellyfish didn’t need novel genes to take an evolutionary leap in complexity.

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Mathematical Simplicity May Drive Evolution’s Speed

By Jordana Cepelewicz
November 29, 2018
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Some researchers are using a complexity framework thought to be purely theoretical to understand evolutionary dynamics in biological and computational systems.


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