Microbiome genes on the move
Largest metagenomic view of the developing world uncovers “mobile genes” that reveal how culture shapes the human microbiome.
Largest metagenomic view of the developing world uncovers “mobile genes” that reveal how culture shapes the human microbiome.
Beginning 2.33 billion years ago, atmospheric oxygen built up in just 10 million years.
New book by Noam Chomsky and Robert Berwick explores how people acquired unique language skills.
Sponges may be source of molecular fossils that significantly predate Cambrian explosion.
New paper suggests people quickly started speaking in a now-familiar form.
Una-May O'Reilly applies machine learning and evolutionary algorithms to tackle some of the world's biggest big-data challenges.
Mutation that arose long ago may be key to humans’ unique ability to produce and understand speech.
MIT study provides first direct evidence of plants in the Neanderthal diet.
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Biophysicist Jeff Gore and collaborators urge applying lessons from yeast colony collapse to tumor growth.
One species, a few drops of seawater, hundreds of coexisting subpopulations.
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