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Revenge of the Weeds
By Amy Coombs
Plant pests are evolving to outsmart common herbicides, costing farmers crops and money.
Live Slow, Die Old
By Ed Yong
Ancient bacteria living in deep-sea sediments are alive—but with metabolisms so slow that it’s hard to tell.
How Prawns Lure Prey
By Sabrina Richards
Orange-loving Trinidad guppies are curiously attracted to orange spots on prawn pincers, which may make it easier for the predators to snatch them up.
Bones Won’t Be Buried Yet
By Jef Akst
Two 9,000-year-old skeletons will be held by University of California, San Diego, officials—rather than turned over to American Indians for reburial—until a lawsuit is settled.
Doubled Gene Boosted Brain Power
By Sabrina Richards
Human-specific duplications of a gene involved in brain development may have contributed to our species’ unique intelligence.
A New Branch of Life?
By Jef Akst
Researchers investigate a microorganism that may warrant a new eukaryotic kingdom in the classification of life.
Spot the Moth
By Cristina Luiggi
It’s a well-known story: The peppered moth’s ancestral typica phenotype is white with dark speckles. In the decades following the…
Mighty Moth Man
By Cristina Luiggi
An evolutionary biologist’s posthumous publication restores the peppered moth to its iconic status as a textbook example of evolution.
From Squeaks to Song
By Hannah Waters
House mice sing melodies out of the range of human hearing, and the crooning is impacting research from evolutionary biology to neuroscience.
