DNA from a 2,500-year-old battlefield in Sicily reveals that mercenary soldiers were common, if not the Homeric ideal.
Tag: Genetics and Heredity
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How About Them Apples? Research Orchards Chart a Fruit’s Future.
Scientists working in research groves, like one in Nova Scotia, are developing your favorite new apple variety.
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How Far Should We Go to Save a Species?
As scientists push the frontiers of conservation technology, some of their initiatives raise ethical questions.
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Siddhartha Mukherjee Weaves History and Biology to Tell the Story of Us
His forthcoming book, “The Song of the Cell,” part of what he says will be a quartet, is “fundamentally about understanding the units that organize our life.”
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Your Doppelgänger Is Out There and You Probably Share DNA With Them
That person who looks just like you is not your twin, but if scientists compared your genomes, they might find a lot in common.