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A worm at the heart of the genome project: What can we learn about ourselves from a lowly parasitic worm? A great deal, argue molecular geneticists on both sides of the Atlantic
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In the beginning was the genome: The world’s first ‘big science’ project in the life sciences – The project to map and sequence the entire complement of human genes
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Science: A new type of genetic disease
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Ancestral voices at war: Linguists in the US are engaged in a bloody battle over the origins of American Indian languages – and the ancestry of the people who speak them. The science of archaeology and molecular biology may settle the dispute
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Science: AIDS drug goes on trial in manipulated mice
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Molecular clocks run out of time: The theory that we can date the birth of new species by charting the steady accumulation of mutations over evolutionary time is in serious trouble
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Science: Population ‘bottlenecks’ enhance a species’ genetic resources
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Science: Humans may have come from Greece, not Africa
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Science: Widely spread species avoid mass extinctions
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Science: Ivory signatures trace the origin of tusks
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Prizewinners came by separate paths to understand RNA
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Legacy of the Taung child / Review of ‘Raymond Arthur Dart: A Pictorial Profile’ by Frances Wheelhouse
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