Ahana Fernandez trekked through the rainforests of Central America, ears tuned for high-pitched, repetitive chirping and squeaking from greater sac-winged bat pups. Their babbling may shed light on why human babies babble and the origins of speech.
But children also burn out fast. Their high metabolisms make them particularly vulnerable to stunted growth and disease if they don’t get the calories they need.
We can now say with great confidence that our species, anatomically modern humans, does not have biological races. We know this in large part due to the contributions of Richard C. Lewontin.
The first assessment from the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change in eight years will sound the alarm on soaring temperatures, rising seas and extreme weather.
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Colonial America was divided over smallpox inoculation, but he championed science to skeptics.
Machine-learning systems with far-reaching potential application in medicine, agriculture, materials science and more from Google sister-company DeepMind and from a rival academic group are now open source and freely accessible.
Pioneer of molecular evolution who campaigned against biological racism.
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