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Many associate Darwin with game theory, genes and the survival of the fittest. But, University of Cambridge Professor Emeritus Gillian Beer, spoke last night of a creative and empathetic Darwin who wondered at the inner lives of oysters. Beer’s talk, entitled “Darwin and the...
Professor Jeff W. Lichtman and his team painstakingly craft their colorful masterpieces—but their paintbrush is the genome, and their canvass the brain. Lichtman and his colleague Joshua R. Sanes, both molecular and cellular biology professors at Harvard, are mapping neurons with a pioneering method, dubbed â?...
For most of its history, the debate over what leads to genius has been dominated by a bitter, binary argument: is it nature or is it nurture - is genius genetically inherited, or are geniuses the products of stimulating and supportive homes? Simonton takes the reasonable position that geniuses are the...
Biologists have documented a vast amount of gene-swapping among single-celled organisms - which happen to make up most of the diversity of life on Earth. There are 10,000 species of bacteria in a spoonful of dirt, twice as many species as all the mammals in the world. In...
[This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine or PDF.] DARWIN TODAY Species share a common ancestry, like branches on a tree Genetic studies confirm that different species have evolved from common ancestors. But DNA has also jumped from one species to another - turning parts of the tree...