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  Animal magic; Evolution

  From:The Economist (Vol. 427, Issue 9095)

  June 9, 2018530 words Article 1240LCreatures from the black lagoon The Cambrian explosion was caused by a lack of oxygen, not an abundance DURING the Cambrian period, which began 541m years ago, animal life took a remarkable leap forward. The first...
• Select Tale of the billion-year-old fossils

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  Tale of the billion-year-old fossils

  Author:Mariette DiChristinaFrom:Popular Science (Vol. 249, Issue 2)

  Aug. 1996253 words Brief article By all accounts, early evolution progressed at a stately pace. It took maybe a billion years for single-celled life to appear after Earth formed, and another two billion years, scientists thought, before more complex,...
• Select Research from Bar Ilan University, Faculty of Life Sciences in the area of life sciences published

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  Research from Bar Ilan University, Faculty of Life Sciences in the area of life sciences published

  From:Women's Health Weekly

  Feb. 25, 2010339 words Brief article 1240LA new study, 'Meig1 deficiency causes a severe defect in mouse spermatogenesis,' is now available. According to a study from Israel, "Meig1 is a mouse gene, abundantly expressed in the testis. It encodes two alternative...
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  Lobster-lip critter

  Author:Yael EhrenpreisFrom:Science World (Vol. 52, Issue 11)

  Mar. 8, 1996280 words Brief article A new species known as Symbion pandora lives on the lips of lobsters. The animal eats the leftover food from the lobster's lips. It reproduces either by mating or by forming buds that separate and become new living...
• Select Jump-start for the vertebrates; new clues to how our ancestors got a head

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  Jump-start for the vertebrates; new clues to how our ancestors got a head

  Author:Ronald MonasterskyFrom:Science News (Vol. 149, Issue 5)

  Feb. 3, 19961,948 words Cover story Research suggests that a huge genetic expansion within the amphioxus may have led to developmental changes that produced vertebrates. Jordi Garcia-Fernandez Holland and his colleagues propose that a amphioxus-like animal...