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Ancient Egyptian history may be rewritten by DNA bone test

A DNA bone test on a man who lived 4,500 years ago sheds new light on the rise of Ancient Egypt.

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Meet the man using AI to clone his voice before he loses it to ALS

Dr. Alec Cooper is recording himself reciting common sayings, elaborate poems and his favourite books as part of the process to clone his voice before his condition deteriorates.

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This Quebec man is losing his voice. An AI tool is helping bring it back to life

Dr. Alec Cooper is spending time in front of a microphone reciting common sayings, elaborate poems and his favourite books as part of the process to clone his voice before his disease progresses further.

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Evolution Seen from the Phase Diagram of Life, by Shigeki Mitaku, Ryusuke Sawada, from Springer. (Jul 5).

Phylogeographic History of Plants and Animals Coexisting with Humans in Asia, by Naoki Osada, from Springer. (Jun 28).

Population Genetics in the Neotropics, Edited by Marcos Vinícius Bohrer Monteiro Siqueira, Enéas Ricardo Konzen, Pedro Manoel Galetti Junior, from Springer, (Jun 21).

Evolution Journal of the Linnean Society. Publish with us. Funding support for open access. Call for papers - Evolution on Islands. (Jun 16).

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Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World, by Peter Godfrey-Smith, from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. (Jun 7).

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Jul 4 17:03Detecting interspecific positive selection using convolutional neural networks by Charlotte West and others (MBE)
Jul 4 17:03Nested admixture during and after the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade on the island of São Tomé by Marta Ciccarella and others (MBE)
Jul 4 17:03Divergence of leptin receptor and interleukin-6 receptor subunit b in early vertebrate evolution and physiological insights from the sea lamprey by Ningping Gong and others (MBE)
Jul 2 16:00Macroevolutionary changes in natural selection on codon usage reflect evolution of the tRNA pool across a budding yeast subphylum - Alexander L. , et al. (PNAS)
Jul 2 16:00Epigenetic cellular memory in Pseudomonas aeruginosa generates phenotypic variation in response to host environments - Elisabeth Vatareck, et al. (PNAS)

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