Photos: Following the evolution of 'Spore'
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Over the years, Will Wright's Spore has gone from a sci-fi-inspired Sims spinoff to its own dual-platform game.
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Life & style: In pictures: Iconic images feature in a new retrospective photographic exhibition.
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The evolution of whales from four-legged land dwellers into streamlined swimmers has been traced in fossilised ears, Nature reports.
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It's another step in the quest to create artificial organisms: Scientists have synthesized the complete DNA of a type of bacteria. The experiment, published online Thursday by the journal Science, isn't a living germ, just its genetic structure.
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A new study of the phylogeny of human head and body lice provides evidence that Homo sapiens once made direct physical contact with a more archaic lineage.
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Morphing two faces together helps scientists understand how we recognise faces.
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By Rettenmeyer, Carl W  BIOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS: THE BASIS OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY All Creatures: Naturalists, Collectors, and Biodiversity, 1850-1950. Robert E. Kohler. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2006. 380 pp., illus. $35.00 (ISBN 978069] 125398 cloth).
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German scientists are using a new computational method to analyze DNA taken from microorganisms that make up more than a third of the Earth's biomass.
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Can the long-extinct mammoth be resurrected through the alchemy of modern biology?
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For the past 30 years scientists have scoured the most inhospitable environments or life. Just about everywhere they look, they find it thriving in microscopic form.
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Eye blinkingly fast Researchers on the island of Samoa have witnessed evolution in action, as the population of male "Blue Moon" butterflies has returned from the brink of extinction. The researchers, from Berkeley University, put the resurgence of the species down to an evolutionary arms race, in which the butterflies' latest weapon is a gene that fights off a parasite.â¦
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A puffer fish genome sequence sheds light on human biology, and tells a twisted evolutionary story. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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Scientists believe that they have reconstructed the pivotal event that created the one-celled organism from which all animals and plants are descended.
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Scientists have pinpointed mutations in an ancient protein that transformed its shape and function more than 400 million years ago.
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Genetic evidence suggests humans have moved into the evolutionary fast lane and are becoming increasing different.
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This is interesting .  43Things has tags as well!  A lot of people are using the Flickr dynamic and bold font treemap view which I'm not sure is good or bad. I've never been fully happy with this view but a lot of people seem to like it (so what do I know!)
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Although photography has been around for generations, its digital overhaul opens up new possibilities. Tell me what you want to find out about. From CNET Blog Networks.