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The trade-off between quality and quantity is a fundamental economic dilemma. Now, a team of British, American, and Japanese researchers describes how it applies to biology, as well. They have ...

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A timeline of genetic changes in millions of years of human evolution shows that variants linked to higher intelligence appeared most rapidly around 500,000 years ago, and were closely followed by ...

Speakers at a school board meeting and on social media have voiced opposition, citing religious beliefs and a desire for more open discussion. The letter states that evolution is a unifying scientific ...