Farmers in Mexico and the southwestern Amazon improved predecessors of today’s corn for thousands of years until the crop was fully domesticated.
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Farmers in Mexico and the southwestern Amazon improved predecessors of today’s corn for thousands of years until the crop was fully domesticated.
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An ancient whale that had neither teeth nor baleen is an important link in the evolution of an extraordinary feeding strategy.
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Artifacts from about 320,000 years ago indicate that early humans had begun replacing technologies and ways of life that had been in place for hundreds of thousands of years.
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Many drably colored male frogs undergo a temporary color change, taking on vibrant hues when it is time to mate.
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