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What a Newfound Kingdom Means for the Tree of Life

By Jonathan Lambert
December 11, 2018
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Neither animal, plant, fungus nor familiar protozoan, a strange microbe that sits in its own “supra-kingdom” of life foretells incredible biodiversity yet to be discovered by new sequencing technologies.

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In Birds’ Songs, Brains and Genes, He Finds Clues to Speech

By Jordana Cepelewicz
January 30, 2018
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The neuroscientist Erich Jarvis found that songbirds’ vocal skills and humans’ spoken language are both rooted in neural pathways for controlling learned movements.

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At Tiny Scales, a Giant Burst on Tree of Life

By Kevin Hartnett
July 28, 2015
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A new technique for finding and characterizing microbes has boosted the number of known bacteria by almost 50 percent, revealing a hidden world all around us.

evolution

A Surprise for Evolution in Giant Tree of Life

By Emily Singer
May 5, 2015
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The largest evolutionary tree ever compiled leads researchers to conclude that chance mutation — not natural selection — drives the development of new species.

genetics

Tracking the Evolution of Cancer, Cell by Cell

By Emily Singer
November 13, 2013
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Analyzing individual cancer cells could reveal the answer to some of the disease’s most enduring mysteries.

genetics

A New Approach to Building the Tree of Life

By Emily Singer
June 4, 2013
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More genetic data is available than ever before to help build evolutionary trees, but scientists are finding that different genes even in the same organism can tell conflicting stories.

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