Sharing Malaria with the African Thicket Rat
Until now, the most deadly form of malaria in humans, Plasmodium falciparum, has been linked to the disease in chimpanzees, with the two similar strains thought to have diverged around the same time as...
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Citizen Scientists Look for Bees Behaving Badly
The idea of having lots of average people collect data for Certified Important Research TM is a hot topic in science circles. Probably the best known example of crowdsourced citizen science is the...
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Your Genome Is a Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland
Contrary to what you may have heard, your genome is not a highly sophisticated, finely tuned data storage and processing device. It's a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Your 25,000 genes reside in a genetic...
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The Germ Theory of Democracy, Dictatorship, and All Your Most Cherished Beliefs
One morning last fall, the evolutionary biologist Randy Thornhill was standing with me in front of the gorilla enclosure at the Albuquerque zoo. He was explaining a new theory about the origins of...
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