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A new theoretical paper argues that a single conserved regulatory architecture sustains biological coherence across evolution ...
The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...
An international team of researchers led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, working with 15 collaborators around the world, has conducted the most ...
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A controversial explanation for why human childbirth is so painful has enraged the internet. Elena Bridgers, a science writer and researcher who focuses on the evolution of motherhood, recently shared ...
The Pith: In this post I review a paper which covers the evolutionary dimension of human childbirth. Specifically, the traits and tendencies peculiar to our species, the genes which may underpin those ...