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A new computational program, MicroFinder, enables faster and more accurate assembly of bird genomes. Improved genome ...

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Stephen Wright, a leading scientist in the emerging field of plant evolutionary genomics, has been appointed dean of the ...

Evolutionary biologists are uncovering genomic mechanisms that allow populations to adapt quickly to different, hyperlocal ...

The transgender creative discusses his new documentary, Second Nature, which shows how gay penguins and sex-changing fish are ...

Every human voice is acoustically unique. The anatomy and evolutionary history behind that fact turns out to be one of ...

Humans are overwhelmingly right-handed, but scientists have long struggled to explain why no other primate species shows ...

Reptiles have been growing armor in their skin on and off for hundreds of millions of years, but scientists never fully ...