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AnthropologyThe Forager King
A celebrated anthropologist surprises and inspires his biographer.
By Bruce Bower -
AnimalsStrange 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.
By Susan Milius -
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.
By John Travis -
Health & MedicineCan 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.