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Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...

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Artificial intelligence allows tracing the evolution of genetic control elements in the developing mammalian cerebellum. An ...

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Throughout most of human history, evolution progressed slowly. Small genetic changes took thousands of years to permeate populations. Natural selection was intentional, reactive, and gradual. However, ...