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Good solutions to biology’s problems are astonishingly plentiful

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Every time a disease spreads, it has another chance to mutate

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The evolutionary biologist reads Robert Frost

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Unreliable rewards trap us into addictive cell phone use, but they can also get us out

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The arXiv preprint service is trying to answer an age-old question

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How settling Mars could create a new human species

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Only 1 in 3 people have evolved tolerance to lactose

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Purebreds don’t satisfy the biological definition of a species

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We follow others no matter how hard we try

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The private life of the African giant offers a remarkable view on evolution

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