Author and curator Nick Pyenson describes the similarities and differences between humans and our distant mammalian relatives.
Naked mole rats feel no pain. They’re exceptionally long-lived. They frequently enter reversible comas, and a single queen mole rat rules over her colony with totalitarian authority. They can also survive without oxygen for extended periods of time.
Compact genomes and tiny cells gave flowering plants an edge over competing flora. This discovery hints at a broader evolutionary principle.
Evolutionary theorists propose that female desire for domineering males helped create a patriarchal world
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You have your mom's smile, your dad's eyes, and the ear muscles of a Triassic mammal.
Studies of the energy-harvesting proteins in primitive cells suggest that key features of photosynthesis might have evolved a billion years earlier than scientists thought.
Even before there were Homo sapiens, our distant forebears had a mix of genes for light and dark skin.
Early embryos may have come to depend on the tricks viruses use to manipulate them.
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