Through a glass, very darkly: a comparison with genomics

O ne of our favorite BBC Radio4 programs is called In Our Time (available as downloadable podcast or to play on line).  Every week, host Me...

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The beetle age

I f the way of ushering in modern science in the 1600s was largely based on instruments such as lenses and clocks, the 1700s became an age o...

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The death of privacy: an anthropological perspective

For most of the world's creatures now and ever, life is a naked phenomenon. Organisms, their phenotypes and their behavior, were lived ...

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