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LifeCities create accidental experiments in plant, animal evolution
To look for evolution in human-scale time, pick a city and watch a lizard. Or some clover.
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AnimalsReptile scales share evolutionary origin with hair, feathers
Hair, scales and feathers arose from same ancestral appendage.
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PsychologyMoral dilemma could put brakes on driverless cars
Driverless cars race into a moral conflict over saving passengers or pedestrians.
By Bruce Bower -
LifeScientists find clue to why mitochondrial DNA comes only from mom
Scientists have identified a protein that chops up the mitochondrial DNA in a dad’s sperm after it fertilizes an egg.