Zoology
Genetics solves mystery of rare brown pandas after 40 years
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Qizai, the world’s only captive brown-and-white panda.Credit: Katherine Feng/Minden Pictures via Alamy Not everything in life is always black and white. Neither ...
scientists call for overhaul of antiquated system
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An 1862 illustration of Megalosaurus, the first dinosaur to be named.Credit: Paul D. Stewart/SPL It’s been 200 years since scientists named the ...
Stable isotopes show Homo sapiens dispersed into cold steppes ~45,000 years ago at Ilsenhöhle in Ranis, Germany
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Hublin, J.-J. et al. Initial Upper Palaeolithic Homo sapiens from Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria. Nature 581, 299–302 (2020). Article CAS PubMed Google ...
Ancestral photoreceptor diversity as the basis of visual behaviour
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Baden, T. Circuit mechanisms for colour vision in zebrafish. Curr. Biol. 31, R807–R820 (2021). Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Dacey, D. M. ...
Hagfish genome elucidates vertebrate whole-genome duplication events and their evolutionary consequences
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Van de Peer, Y., Maere, S. & Meyer, A. The evolutionary significance of ancient genome duplications. Nat. Rev. Genet. 10, 725–732 (2009). ...
Decoupling speciation and extinction reveals both abiotic and biotic drivers shaped 250 million years of diversity in crocodile-line archosaurs
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Allan, R. P. Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis: Working Group I Contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental ...
