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Colorado blue columbine
Photo: Colorado blue columbine, by Tranquiligold Jin, via Flickr (cropped).

No “Hopeful Monster,” Flower Demonstrates Evolution by Subtraction

Evolutionary biologists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, noticed something peculiar about the columbines in a region of Colorado. Read More ›
origin of life

“Radical New Theory” on the Origin of Life?

Some recent work suggests it all happened at once in a sort of “chemical big bang.” Read More ›
language

Proteome Is Analogous to Language

A paper likens the proteome to a language with a “quasi-universal grammar” possessing the minimum complexity necessary to function as a cell. Read More ›

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