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Open Questions
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Peto’s Paradox: Why Don’t Elephants and Whales Get More Cancer?
Big, long-lived animals should get far more cancer than they do. Here is what the evidence shows about Peto's paradox, the competing…
Open Questions
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Why Does Sex Exist? The Twofold Cost and the Case for Sex
Asexual females should outbreed sexual ones two to one, yet sex dominates complex life. This article weighs the evidence for the leading…
Science
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Is Evolution Random? Selection, Mutation and Drift Explained
Evolution mixes a blind step, a directed step and a chance step. Here is how mutation, natural selection and genetic drift fit…
Science
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The Cambrian Explosion: What Happened and Why It Matters
Around 539 million years ago, most major animal groups appear in the fossil record. Here is what was found, what came before,…