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Evolution and Health
This month marks the birth of the 19th century naturalist Charles Darwin, who launched the scientific study of evolution. While Darwin's theory laid the groundwork, ongoing studies have deepened our...
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Discovery opens up new areas of microbiology, evolutionary biology
A team of researchers led by Virginia Tech and University of California, Berkeley, scientists has discovered that a regulatory process that turns on photosynthesis in plants at daybreak likely...
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Metabolism may have started in our early oceans before the origin of life
The chemical reactions behind metabolism – the processes that occur within all living organisms in order to sustain life – may have formed spontaneously in the Earth’s early oceans, according to...
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Early Life in Death Valley
Buried Treasure? Geologists are searching Death Valley and other areas for microscopic fossils of cellular and animal life that thrived on land hundreds of millions of years before the Cambrian...
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