A study looking at the
genetics of two related crow subspecies provides a snapshot of speciation in
action - one of the most interesting processes in biology by which new species
arise.
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- Zoe Sehlke
- Martina Treggiari
The fish swimming in our
oceans are more complex and diverse than many would assume. They are the first
true vertebrates, but have subsequently divided into many different groups,
with the first...
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- Diego Pereira
- Jasmine Tinker
Sex has long been an intriguing topic for biologists.
Traditional sexual reproduction requires a large amount of energy and even more
energy when we consider the time to find a right partner. That ...
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- Chelsey Gilmour
- Isabel Robson
Why is it that fish have gills
and marine mammals do not? How can some whales hold their breath for 90 minutes
yet a human can only manage a measly 2 minutes? A recent paper published by Yim
et ...
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Mountain gorillas have been isolated from eastern
lowland gorillas for about 400,000 years. These two subspecies separated from
their western counterpart around 2 million years ago.
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- Kamran Sheikh
- Ali Al-Ghusein
Anyone who's spent
any length of time in the tropics comes to develop an intimate relationship
with Aedes aegypti, the domestic mosquito. Although everyone at some
point has felt the red-raised itc...
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Ever heard of the nursery rhyme
“What are Little Boys Made Of?”? There was a time when it was the go-to
explanation parents could give their inquisitive children when asked the
awkward question ...
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- Maysa de Assis
- Lucas Musolon
A study published by Nature in
2014 linked genetics to ecology to find the answer to an old puzzle. Until then
researchers across the world were not sure of what determined the genetic
diversity...
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