The human ability to cook may seem ordinary, but it marks one of the most important evolutionary turning points in our ...
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27 human oddities that prove how strange biology can be
Some people have such bizarre genetics and medical histories that they feel like walking and talking statistical anomalies.
A new study shows cultural evolution helped humans expand across Earth far faster than genetic change alone could achieve.
Biologists mapping the human microbiome expected to find new bacteria and viruses, not entities that slip through every familiar category of life. Yet that is what several research teams now say they ...
A novel study uncovers how a subtle chemical tweak transforms the naturally occurring phytotoxin into a powerful molecular glue, 12-deoxyfusicoccin (12-dFC), that locks 14-3-3 proteins onto the ...
Pollutants can harm human health and enter the body through the air people breathe, the water they drink and the food they ...
The human body looks ordinary on the surface. Two eyes, ten fingers, predictable routines. Underneath, though, things get strange fast. Biology bends rules you did not even know existed. Some of these ...
"First published in the USA by Viking Penguin, 2005"--T.p. verso. Prologue. The power of ideas -- 1. The six epochs -- The intuitive linear view versus the historical exponential view -- The six ...
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