New Fossil Primate Challenges 'Missing Link' Ida
Researchers propose that it was Asian, not European or African, primates that gave rise to monkeys, apes, and humans
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Back to the Drawing Board for Psychiatric Genetics
In 2003, researchers reported that a gene variant seemed to play a major role in whether people get depressed in response to life's stresses or sail through. But an exhaustive new analysis published last week suggests that the big fish may be a minnow at best.
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Amur tigers on 'genetic brink'
The world's largest cat is down to an effective wild population of fewer than 35 individuals, new research has found.
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Evolution: Going Farther with Sex
Plant mating systems are under pressure to produce the most and the best offspring (seeds) and to offer them the greatest opportunity to thrive in the absence of competition by … [Read more]
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'Classic' study of whales wins prize
A childhood love of Melville's Moby-Dick led to a lifetime passion for whales which, in turn, resulted in the writer Philip Hoare tonight being named winner of the UK's most important prize for non-fiction books.
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Secrets revealed about how disease-causing DNA mutations occur
A team of Penn State scientists has shed light on the processes that lead to certain human DNA mutations that are implicated in hundreds of inherited diseases such as tuberous sclerosis and neurofibromatosis type 1.
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Inbred bumblebees less successful
Declining bumblebee populations are at greater risk of inbreeding, which can trigger a downward spiral of further decline. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology have provided the first proof that inbreeding reduces colony fitness under natural conditions by increasing the production of reproductively inefficient 'diploid' males.
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