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Life’s Big Leaps: Critical Moments in Evolution

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Life’s Big Leaps: Critical Moments in Evolution

How Humans Evolved Supersize Brains

By Ferris Jabr
November 10, 2015
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Scientists have begun to identify the symphony of biological triggers that powered the extraordinary expansion of the human brain.

Life’s Big Leaps: Critical Moments in Evolution

The Woman Who Stared at Wasps

By Veronique Greenwood
November 5, 2015
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The biologist Joan Strassmann discusses cooperation in social insects, how amoebas can teach us about competition, and why the definition of “organism” needs an overhaul.

Life’s Big Leaps: Critical Moments in Evolution

Life’s Secrets Sought in a Snowflake

By Emily Singer
November 3, 2015
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A single genetic change and some clever geometry show how single-celled organisms can band together to form cooperative multicellular entities.

Life’s Big Leaps: Critical Moments in Evolution

Mongrel Microbe Tests Story of Complex Life

By Emily Singer
October 29, 2015
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A newly discovered class of microbe could help to resolve one of the biggest and most controversial mysteries in evolution — how simple microbes transformed into the complex cells that produced animals, plants and fungi.

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