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Scientists in the UK and Cuba are urging members of the public to vote for the ‘world’s most beautiful snail’, in an international competition to unravel its DNA blueprint – thus unlocking the key to its beauty.The Cuban Painted Snails, which are onl
Archaeology and paleontology offer us a window into the past of our own species and others who lived and died long before we were around to see them. For decades, the study of the past was dependent on visible artifacts, primarily bones. This method of investigation, while vital to our understanding of evolution, is limited by the fossilization process and the finite number of remains we’re able to find.
If you ever feel like you can’t stop eating sugar, you are responding precisely as programmed by natural selection. What was once an evolutionary advantage has a different effect today.
If you ever feel like you can’t stop eating sugar, you are responding precisely as programmed by natural selection. What was once an evolutionary advantage has a different effect today.
Douglas R. Cavener, Penn State Professor of Biology and former Verne M. Willaman Dean of the Eberly College of Science, has been named Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Distinguished Chair in Evolutionary Genetics by the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences.