Culture-gene coevolution and language
Simon Fisher and Matt Ridley, in a recent essay in Science, discuss the relationship between the genetic mutations that distinguish humans and other primates...
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Chimpanzee microbiome variation is like ours
A new paper by Andrew Moeller and colleagues surveys the variation in species composition of gut microbiomes in the chimpanzees from Gombe, Tanzania Moeller:...
Louse story
Bruce Bower reports on Andrew Kitchen and colleagues’ work, establishing the divergence time of human head lice and body lice. The idea is that this divergen...
Another side of pitcher plants
Jerry Coyne writes about a paper that demonstrates a strange adaptation of certain Bornean pitcher plants: “Good to the last dropping: pitcher plant evolves ...