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Species Have Come and Gone at Different Rates than Previously Believed

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Improved understanding of the history of biological diversity has implications for future responses to climate change
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Circadian Math: One Plus One Doesn't Always Equal Two

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Life sciences news // 07 June, 2008 01:39:00
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Like a wristwatch that needs to be wound daily for accurate time-telling, the human circadian system - the biological cycles that repeat approximately every 24 hours - requires daily light exposure to the eye's retina to remain synchronized with the solar day.

Plastic Brain Outsmarts Experts

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Life sciences news // 05 June, 2008 12:02:00
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Training can increase fluid intelligence, once thought to be fixed at birth

A Great Lakes mystery: The case of the disappearing species

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Life sciences news // 28 May, 2008 12:21:00
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Throughout the overlooked depths of Lake Michigan and other Great Lakes, a small but important animal is rapidly disappearing.

When Plants "Think" Alike

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Life sciences news // 27 May, 2008 02:04:00
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New genetic evidence shows that the same trait developed independently on separate branches of the evolutionary tree

Computer Program Reveals Anyone's Ancestry

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Life sciences news // 07 May, 2008 12:17:00
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Researchers develop computer algorithm that can trace the genetic ancestry of thousands of individuals in minutes.

Superbug genome sequenced

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Life sciences news // 06 May, 2008 12:31:00
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The genome of a newly-emerging superbug, commonly known as Steno, has just been sequenced. The results reveal an organism with a remarkable capacity for drug resistance. The research was carried out by scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute near Cambridge and the University of Bristol.

Slowly Developing Primates Definitely Not Dim-Witted

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Life sciences news // 20 April, 2008 12:44:00
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Duke-led study ties big brains of humans and apes to extended growth and longer lives

Food bug evolution uncovered

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Life sciences news // 15 April, 2008 12:23:00
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Two species of bacteria that are estimated to cause 400,000 cases of food poisoning in the UK (and about five times that number in the USA) every year are merging, probably as a result of agricultural activity, Oxford University scientists have discovered.

And the First Animal on Earth Was a ...

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Life sciences news // 10 April, 2008 12:17:00
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Evolutionary history of the comb jelly reveals surprising clues about Earth’s first animal

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