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The Games Genes Play: Algorithm Helps Explain Sex in Evolution
What do you get when you mix theorists in computer science with evolutionary biologists? You…
UH Research Focuses on How Food Marketing Creates a False Sense of Health
Health-related buzzwords, such as “antioxidant,” “gluten-free” and “whole grain,” lull consumers into thinking packaged food…
Chimpanzees Spontaneously Initiate and Maintain Cooperative Behavior
Without any pre-training or restrictions in partner choice among chimpanzees, researchers at the Yerkes National…
From Contemporary Syntax to Human Language’s Deep Origins
On the island of Java, in Indonesia, the silvery gibbon, an endangered primate, lives in…
Genes in the Cloud: Google Steps Into Autism Research
Google Inc. and Autism Speaks, a major autism research foundation, plan to announce on Tuesday…
Microbes May Drive Evolution of New Animal Species
A little over a year ago, Bordenstein, a biologist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee,…
Allard Awarded the Hellman Fellowship
Patrick Allard, Assistant Professor in the Institute for Society and Genetics and the Department of…
HIV Transmission Networks Mapped to Reduce Infection Rate
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have mapped the transmission…
Genetics In Court Is a Very Messy Business
Courts may soon face the challenge of determining whether genetics can be linked to criminal…
Genome Sequences Show How Lemurs Fight Infection
The young lemur named Eugenius started to get sick. Very sick. He was lethargic, losing…
Scientists Urge Study of Environmental Factors That May Speed Aging
Why do our bodies age at different rates? Why can some people run marathons at…
Intertwined Evolution of Human Brain and Brawn
The cognitive differences between humans and our closest living cousins, the chimpanzees, are staggeringly obvious….