Kate Wong
katewong
Suuuper excited about these genomes from mammoth fossils that are more than a million years old.https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mammoth-genomes-shatter-record-for-oldest-dna-sequences/ One of the first pieces I wrote for @SciAm w
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[THREAD] For @sciam’s 175th birthday, I looked at what scientists have learned about human origins since the magazine debuted in 1845. Pretty much everything we know about the evolution of
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[THREAD] Recently I’ve been fixated on the fledgling brown-headed cowbirds in my yard. Cowbirds, if you’re not familiar with them, are brood parasites—females lay their eggs in the nests of
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