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The results, published April 26 in the journal Science, suggest that internal — not external — factors are the primary drivers of variation in the types of
The split gill mushroom _Schizophyllum commune_, a fungal species that includes more than 20,000 sexes. Bernard SpraggBy the end of every spring semester, students in my introductory biology course at Vanderbilt University have become quite familiar with natural variation in human sex chromosomes. They know, for example, that most females have two X chromosomes and most males have one X and one Y chromosome. But in every thousand humans, there are typically a few whose biological sex doesn’t mat
Scientists have long wondered what the first animals were like, including questions about their anatomy and how they found food.
A new study bolsters the idea that the first animals were surprisingly complex, perhaps equipped with muscles and a nervous system.
Scientists say we are not nearly as prepared for the increasing threat of a potential fungal pandemic as we were for COVID-19