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Perfection is a myth, show 50,000 bacterial generations
The longest-running evolutionary experiment ever carried out in a lab shows that even in a stable environment, perfect fitness is never achieved
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Written in blood: Your life history in just one drop
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Musical mind-reading can name that tune
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Zoologger: Sea slugs stab partners in head during sex
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Genetic clue to high heart risk of black Americans
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Alga takes first evolutionary leap to multicellularity
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This Rembrandt is science’s first Asian elephant
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Skeletal chains could help algae deliver drugs
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New dolphin species leaps out of Australian waters
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Cuckoo bee feasts on the larvae of its cousins
With its huge eyes and cuddly exterior, this beast sure looks cute. But it is a cuckoo bee – an egg-munching, larva-killing parasite of the nests of other bees
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Cell tails: A surprising number
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Cell tails: Lines of communication
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Cell tails: A cause of common diseases?
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Earth’s first life may have sprung up in ice
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