The Noonan lab at Yale University is focused on understanding how HARs contribute to the evolution of uniquely human brain features.

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Have you ever looked at the beach and wondered how many grains of sand there are? That can be mind-boggling to think about. Scientists estimate that, depending on the grain size and density, a single ...

Michael M. Desai, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and of Physics, hopes to leverage the common fungus to ...

A new map of Africa that uses strontium could help descendants of the transatlantic slave trade to finally trace their roots ...

Researchers from The University of Manchester—in collaboration with the Universities of Granada, Lund, and Oslo—have ...

Once scientists have collected an eDNA sample, they analyze it via bar coding, which can either look for a single species or ...

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