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New species form constantly, but they take huge stretches of time to do so.
WSJ: Matt Ridley on the Possible Formation of a Species | Mind & Matter
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Dr Singh said ferritin was found in a similar form in different species.
BBC: Prions damage brain tissue
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Because the sounds of the most closely related apes matched most closely in the analysis of the laughter, the researchers believe the work is proof of laughter's shared evolutionary origin, followed by adaptation to its form in the species we see today.
BBC: Tickled apes yield laughter clue
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These traits could be edited into a new form of the same species in a far more precise and accurate way than with the existing tricks in genetics' kit bag.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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Socially, only four of the 15 species are known to form groups that last for more than a year.
ECONOMIST: Some bats live in belfries. Others prefer tents
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This is a form of prejudice which unduly favours the human species and seems to justify its members in exploiting, eating and experimenting on other animals for their benefit.
ECONOMIST: Moral arguments: Animals too | The
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And although the parakeets required human assistance to get from Asia to Britain, their arrival is only an extreme form of the constant, natural shuffling of species brought about by the movements of adventurous individuals which studies such as this seek to monitor.
ECONOMIST: The oldest bird in the world
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Lawyers should be free to set up shop both with outside investors and with other species of lawyer, so that barristers could form partnerships with solicitors, for example.
ECONOMIST: Why it is so difficult to regulate lawyers and doctors
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In its haste to make a statement on the current debate recently, the Royal Society asserted that a belief that all species on earth have always existed in their present form, ....is "not consistent with the evidence from geology, astronomy and physics".
BBC: A POINT OF VIEW
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Human activity, however, especially in the form of agriculture, deforestation, hunting and pollution, has inexorably reduced the numbers of these species, leaving many of them teetering on the brink of extinction.
CNN: All creatures great, small and disappearing