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Ancient DNA from West Africa Adds to Picture of Humans' Rise

From a burial site in Cameroon, archaeologists recovered human genetic material dating as far back as 8,000 years.

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Dinosaur extinction: 'Asteroid strike was real culprit'

A team of scientists discounts the idea that large-scale volcanism drove the demise of the dinosaurs.

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Why Is Air Pollution So Harmful? DNA May Hold the Answer

It's not just a modern problem. Airborne toxins are so pernicious that they may have shaped human evolution.

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Female Control: Sexual Selection by Cryptic Female Choice (Monographs in Behavior and Ecology) by William Eberhard, from Princeton University Press (Dec 28).

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Jan 23 12:00The genome of the great gerbil reveals species-specific duplication of an MHCII gene - Pernille Nilsson et al. (GBE)
Jan 23 12:00Can green algal plastid genome size be explained by DNA repair mechanisms? - David Roy Smith (GBE)
Jan 23 12:00Molecular evolution of the glutathione S-transferase family in the Bemisia tabaci species complex - Ofer Aidlin Harari et al. (GBE)
Jan 23 12:00Genomic analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates and construction of a Beijing lineage reference genome - Woei-Fuh Wang et al. (GBE)
Jan 21 20:00An evolutionary switch from sibling rivalry to sibling cooperation, caused by a sustained loss of parental care - Darren Rebar, Nathan W. Bailey, Benjamin J. M. Jarrett, Rebecca M. Kilner (PNAS)
Jan 21 20:00Tradeoffs in the evolution of plant farming by ants - Guillaume Chomicki, Gudrun Kadereit, Susanne S. Renner, E. Toby Kiers (PNAS)
Jan 21 20:00Functional variants of DOG1 control seed chilling responses and variation in seasonal life-history strategies in Arabidopsis thaliana - Alejandra Martínez-Berdeja et al. (PNAS)
Jan 21 12:00Comparative genomics identifies putative signatures of sociality in spiders - Chao Tong et al. (GBE)
Jan 21 12:00Evolutionary dynamics of abundant 7 bp satellites in the genome of Drosophila virilis - Jullien M Flynn, Manyuan Long, Rod A Wing, Andrew G Clark (MBE)
Jan 21 12:00Evolution of transcriptional repressors impacts Caenorhabditis vulval development - Helen M Chamberlin et al. (MBE)
Jan 21 12:00The genomes of the livebearing fish species Poeciliopsis retropinna and Poeciliopsis turrubarensis reflect their different reproductive strategies - Henri van Kruistum et al. (MBE)

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