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Entries Tagged as 'Natural Selection'

Time In A Bottle: Scientists Watch Evolution Unfold

October 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment

A 21-year Michigan State University experiment that distills the essence of evolution in laboratory flasks not only demonstrates natural selection at work, but could lead to biotechnology and medical research advances, researchers said. (…)

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Mouse set to be ‘evolution icon’

August 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment

A tiny pale deer mouse living on a sand dune in Nebraska looks set to become an icon of biology. (…)

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Sex in the Caribbean: Environmental change drives evolutionary change — eventually

July 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment

 
Hungry, sexual organisms replaced well-fed, clonal organisms in the Caribbean Sea as the Isthmus of Panama arose, separating the Caribbean from the Pacific, report researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. (…)

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Gene Evolution Process Discovered

June 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment

One of the mechanisms governing how our physical features and behavioural traits have evolved over centuries has been discovered by researchers at the University of Leeds. (…)

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Charles Darwin to receive apology from the Church of England for rejecting evolution

September 17th, 2008 · 6 Comments

The Church of England is to apologise to Charles Darwin for its initial rejection of his theories, nearly 150 years after he published his most famous work. (…)

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