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By mentioning that tension, my professor tapped into the less-often discussed nature of what diversity can mean in a classroom. Rather than the polite and good-natured exchange of ideas and ideologies that’s advertised to us, we find that diversity is sometimes much more difficult than...
Rarely do golfers acquire nicknames, but Harvard sophomore Emily Balmert merits this treatment. Not for her superb play as of late, but for her epic, humorous stories that leave her teammates responding with much more than a subdued golf clap. Known as the “Puppet Master�...
Still, the principle of gene-by-gene comparison remains a powerful one, and just a year ago geneticists got hold of a long-awaited tool for making those comparisons in bulk. Although the news was largely overshadowed by the impact of Hurricane Katrina, which hit the same week, the publication...
A striking example of how gene duplication may have helped propel us away from our apelike origins appeared in Science last month. A research team led by James Sikela of the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, in Aurora, Colo., looked at a gene that is believed...
And that's not the most startling finding. Reich's team also found that the entire human X chromosome diverged from the chimp's X chromosome about 1.2 million years later than the other chromosomes. One plausible explanation is that chimps and humans first split but later interbred from time...