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This monumental scientific achievement occurred within a context of intense international collaboration, rapid technical ...

On a foggy Saturday morning in 1953, a tall, skinny 24-year-old man fiddled with shapes he had cut out of cardboard. They ...

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For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and ...

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Distinct domestic dog types could have started developing thousands of years before modern breeding, archaeologists find.

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Two new studies suggest the story of dogs and their relationship with humans is older and more complex than once thought.

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