Science 1996 Virginia Morell - Abstracts

Science 1996 Virginia Morell
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A 24-hour circadian clock is found in the mammalian retina.Science and technologyVirginia Morell
Climbing the corporate ladder - using scientific skills.(scientists making the transition to the corporate environment)Science and technologyVirginia Morell
Flies unmask evolutionary warfare between the sexes.Science and technologyVirginia Morell
Genes vs teams: weighing group tactics in evolution.Science and technologyVirginia Morell
Life at the top: animals pay the high price of dominance.Science and technologyVirginia Morell
Life's last domain: with the genome of the archaeon Methanococcus jannaschii sequenced, researchers now have genomes for life's three domains.Science and technologyVirginia Morell
Manic-depression findings spark polarized debate.(new research points to more than one gene theory)Science and technologyVirginia Morell
New mammals discovered by biology's new explorers.Science and technologyVirginia Morell
New virus variant killed Serengeti cats.(new strain of canine distemper virus killed lions in Tanzania)Science and technologyVirginia Morell
On the many origins of species. (formation of species without geographical isolation)(includes related article on biological diversity in the Amazon Basin)(Special News Report: Speciation)Science and technologyAnn Gibbons, Virginia Morell
Proteins 'clock' the origins of all creatures - great and small. (molecular clock developed)(Research News)Science and technologyVirginia Morell
Setting a biological stopwatch.(brain's interval-timing mechanism)(includes related article on circadian rhythms)Science and technologyVirginia Morell
Sizing up evolutionary radiations; by gauging life's diversity from differences in body size and shape rather than number of species, paleontologists are gleaning surprising new insights about adaptive radiations.Science and technologyVirginia Morell
Starting species with third parties and sex wars. (mechanisms for forming new species)(includes related article on defining species)(Special News Report: Speciation)Science and technologyAnn Gibbons, Virginia Morell
Strong baby limbs may kick image of maternal dinos. (dinosaurs may have required less parental care than previously proposed)Science and technologyVirginia Morell
Web-crawling up the tree of life. (World Wide Web site; includes address and related article on TreeBASE, a tree database on the World Wide Web)Science and technologyVirginia Morell
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