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Photo credit: Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Evolutionary Mystery of the Platypus

The bill of the platypus is “the most remarkable organ for sensory perception found in the animal kingdom.” Read More ›
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Photo: Australopithecus, Neanderthal-Museum, Mettmann, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Not Out of Context: Comments on Hawks et al. (2000)

The lead author is John Hawks, a professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, who has a popular blog on paleoanthropology. Read More ›
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Image credit: Nathan Jacobson.

Additional Method of Analysis Confirms Human-Chimp Genomes Are About 15 Percent Different

This number is only looking at the non-sex chromosomes. When you look at the sex chromosomes, the differences seem to be even greater. Read More ›
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Photo: Baby green sea turtle, by Tyler Karaszewski, via Flickr (cropped).

Sea Turtles Display Elegant Design Solutions; They’re Also Really Cute

Apart from their being adorable, what many may not realize is that their motion on the sand is also amazingly efficient. Read More ›
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New Studies Reveal the Exquisite Designs of the Nucleus and its DNA

You may have heard that all the DNA in your body, if stretched out, could reach to the Sun and back more than 70 times. Read More ›
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Photo: Ophrys apifera, also known as the “bee orchid,” by Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE / CC BY-SA.

Sex Chromosomes Refuse to Fit One Origins Theory

The designer made the sexual organs of angiosperms, namely, flowers, to be the most spectacularly beautiful structures in biology. Read More ›

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