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Altering A Species: Darwin's Shopping List

by Jimena Canales

Few scientific discoveries have caused as much excitement as that of editing our genes; yet we owe some of the most stunning wonders around us to old-fashioned breeding practices, says Jimena Canales.
2:47pm Feb 10, 2017

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Getting To Know Charles Darwin

February 12th is Darwin Day, an international, annual celebration commemorating the birthday of Charles Darwin, the English naturalist and geologist made famous for his theory of evolution by natural selection. We’ve all heard of Darwin, but what do we know about him?

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10:55am Aug 27, 2015

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Dining Like Darwin: When Scientists Swallow Their Subjects

by Jessie Rack

Some scientists carry on the tradition of eating the animals or plants they study: leeches, tadpoles, 30,000-year-old bison. Darwin did it first, but why do it at all? Call it all-consuming curiosity.