Word: speciesism
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And sometime in the next few weeks, a team led by molecular geneticist Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, Germany, will announce an even more stunning achievement: the sequencing of a significant fraction of the genome of Neanderthals--the human-like species...
Then, in 2004, a team led by Hansell Stedman of the University of Pennsylvania identified a tiny mutation in a gene on chromosome 7 that affects the production of myosin, the protein that enables muscle tissue to contract. The mutant gene prevents the expression of a myosin variant, known as...
The bright lights of Jordan Field put a spark into the Harvard field hockey team’s offense on Wednesday night. Returning from a weekend loss at Brown, the Crimson (0-8, 0-2 Ivy League) ended their three-game scoreless streak against the No. 15 Providence Friars (10...
Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (Matador) 3.5 of 5 Stars By ERIC L. FRITZ CRIMSON STAFF WRITER Don’t get me wrong; I like NPR. During long commutes, there would be moments when the hip-hop and pop...
A walking shark may sound like a mutant nightmare, but the creature's discovery was a scientific dream. The epaulette shark-actually a shy, 1-m-long bottom-feeder-is one of more than 50 species of fish, shrimp and coral previously unknown to science that researchers from the environmental...