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The origins of consciousness date back about 540 million years ago, when animal bodies became more complex. Feelings like ...

Sunish Sehgal, winter wheat breeder at South Dakota State University, explains the evolution of wheat and what can be ...

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Archaeologists find earliest known use of poison-laced weapons by humans - Prehistoric humans had advanced planning abilities ...

Molecular evolution is the area of evolutionary biology that studies evolutionary change at the level of the DNA sequence. It includes the study of rates of sequence change, relative importance of ...

As large and ubiquitous as Amazon is today, it's difficult to remember that it started in a garage. Jeff Bezos and his first few employees packed books and took them to the post office themselves in ...

Social evolution is the area of evolutionary biology that studies how social interactions, especially between individuals of the same species, arise, change and are maintained. A particular focus is ...

The Chicago Manual of Style is an American English style guide published by the University of Chicago Press. The Manual’s guidelines for publishing, style and usage, and citations and indexes—known as ...