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Smithsonian Magazine • 16th April 2021

In a Warming World, Heat Interferes With Sex Determination in These Australian Lizards

Scientists have discovered how hot temperatures override chromosomes in bearded dragons
Scientific American • 21st October 2020

Vicious Woodpecker Battles Draw an Avian Audience

Biologists who study acorn woodpeckers’ power struggles are not the only ones watching—so are rival woodpecker groups
Scientific American • 21st May 2020

Bumblebees Bite Plants to Force Them to Flower (Seriously)

The behavior could be an evolutionary adaptation that lets bees forage more easily
Scientific American • 17th December 2019

Ancient "Chewing Gum" Reveals a 5,700-Year-Old Microbiome

Archaeologists reconstructed a Neolithic woman’s complete genome and oral microbiome from a piece of birch tar she chewed
Scientific American • 5th December 2019

Now Hear This: New Fossils Reveal Early Ear-Bone Evolution

A change in chewing led to the emergence of the mammalian middle ear
Scientific American • 21st November 2019

What Makes a Song? It's the Same Recipe in Every Culture

Humans everywhere bring together pitch, tempo and the like in a similar fashion
Scientific American • 17th June 2019

Domestication Made Dogs' Facial Anatomy More Fetching to Humans

Wolves lack the muscles that allow dogs to raise their eyebrows and make puppy dog eyes
Scientific American • 4th April 2019

Cats Recognize Their Own Names--Even If They Choose to Ignore Them

Domestic felines distinguish between their monikers and similar-sounding words, new research shows
Scientific American • 26th February 2019

Did Crawling Critters Leave These Cracks? The Answer Could Rewrite Evolutionary History

Researchers say they found evidence life began moving 2.1 billion years ago, but that contentious conclusion is far from certain
Scientific American • 15th February 2019

Ancient Earth's Weakened Magnetic Field May Have Driven Mass Extinction

When our planet’s magnetosphere nearly disappeared 565 million years ago, it may have almost taken all life with it
The Scientist Magazine® • 1st July 2018

Why Are Modern Humans Relatively Browless?

The function of early hominins’ enlarged brow ridges, and their reduction in size in Homo sapiens, have puzzled paleoanthropologists for decades.
The Scientist Magazine® • 23rd May 2018

Animals’ Embryonic Organizer Now Discovered in Human Cells

The finding confirms that a cluster of cells that directs the fate of other cells in the developing embryo is evolutionarily conserved across the animal kingdom.
The Scientist Magazine® • 4th May 2018

Monkey Hybrids Challenge Assumptions of What a Species Is

A study finds two species of guenon monkeys in Tanzania have been mating and producing fertile offspring for generations.
The Scientist Magazine® • 18th April 2018

How Kidney Cancer Evolves

Renal cell carcinoma tumors have three different evolutionary fates, each associated with specific clinical outcomes.
The Scientist Magazine® • 1st April 2018

Infected Ants Chemically Attract Workers to Destroy Them

Social insects kill infected individuals for the benefit of the colony—and now a study has shown how they know who’s sick.
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