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  1. Anthropology

    The Forager King

    A celebrated anthropologist surprises and inspires his biographer.

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  2. Animals

    Strange Y chromosome makes supermom mice

    An otherwise rare system of sex determination has evolved independently at least six times in one genus of South American mice.

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  3. Genetic variation sways risk of diabetes

    A gene carried by up to 85 percent of the people in the world increases susceptibility to diabetes by about 25 percent.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Can poliovirus fix spinal cord damage?

    Scientists have devised a version of the poliovirus that can deliver genes to motor neurons without harming them, a step toward a gene therapy that reawakens idle neurons in people with spinal cord damage.