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Trilobites: Big Discovery in a Tiny Mammal-Like Skull Found Under a Dinosaur’s Foot

Paleontologists found a 130 million-year-old haramiyid fossil in Utah, suggesting that the ancient relatives of modern mammals spread farther across the globe than thought.

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'Living fossil' giant salamander heading for extinction

The world's largest amphibian is in "catastrophic" decline, with probably only a handful left in the wild.

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Malaria genetics: study shows how disease became deadly

A genetic study reveals the secrets of how malaria evolved to be deadly killer of humans.

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The Wonderful Mr Willughby: The First True Ornithologist by T. Birkhead, from Bloomsbury (May 19).

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Phylogenetic Inference, Selection Theory, and History of Science Selected Papers of A. W. F. Edwards with Commentaries, Ed: R. Grønfeldt Winther from Cambridge Univ Press (May 14).

Flybook chapter: "Phylogeny of the Genus Drosophila", by Patrick M. O’Grady and Rob DeSalle Genetics. May 2018. 209(1): 1-25. (May 11).

Genome Editing and Engineering From TALENs, ZFNs and CRISPRs to Molecular Surgery, Ed: K. Appasani from Cambridge Univ Press (May 7).

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The Story of Life in 25 Fossils: Tales of Intrepid Fossil Hunters and the Wonders of Evolution by D. R. Prothero from Columbia Univ Press (Apr 23).

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May 22 20:00Demographic history and genetic adaptation in the Himalayan region inferred from genome-wide SNP genotypes of 49 populations - Elena Arciero et al. (MBE)
May 22 08:00Biological species in the viral world - Louis-Marie Bobay, Howard Ochman (PNAS)
May 22 08:00Paleocene Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) from India with implications for an East Gondwana origin of Convolvulaceae - Gaurav Srivastava, Rakesh C. Mehrotra, David L. Dilcher (PNAS)
May 21 12:00Translation: The Universal Structural Core of Life - Chad R Bernier et al. (MBE)
May 21 12:00Repeated cis-regulatory tuning of a metabolic bottleneck gene during evolution - Meihua Christina Kuang et al. (MBE)
May 21 12:00How the Central American Seaway and an ancient northern passage affected flatfish diversification - Lisa Byrne, François Chapleau, Stéphane Aris-Brosou (MBE)
May 21 12:00Biological processes modulating longevity across primates: a phylogenetic genome-phenome analysis - Gerard Muntané et al. (MBE)
May 21 12:00The evolution of gene expression underlying vision loss in cave animals - David B Stern, Keith A Crandall (MBE)

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