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New research published in Nature Ecology and Evolution reveals significant recent shifts in tree diversity among the tropical ...

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An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

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New research published in Nature Ecology and Evolution reveals significant recent shifts in tree diversity among the tropical forests of the Andes and ...