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A Map of Human History, Hidden in DNA
...His early exposure to human differences — “I loved geography, I loved languages, I loved history” — morphed into a deep curiosity about evolution and genetic diversity. His work reflects...
Beating the Odds for Lucky Mutations
...resistance to UV or antibiotics. The question that has tormented some evolutionary biologists ever since is whether nature favored this arrangement. Is the upsurge in mutations merely a secondary consequence...
DNA Analysis Reveals a Genus of Plants Hiding in Plain Sight
...of the original naturalists. The rising importance of the theory of evolution to biology altered the purpose of taxonomy. Taxonomy began simply as a way of naming and cataloging organisms...
World’s Simplest Animal Reveals Hidden Diversity
...thing because it has no real defined body,” said Michael Eitel, an evolutionary biologist at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Germany. “There’s no mouth, there’s no back, no nerve cells,...
A Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics
...Bourjaily said. It “really started this revolution.” In the mid-2000s, more patterns emerged in the scattering amplitudes of particle interactions, repeatedly hinting at an underlying, coherent mathematical structure behind quantum...
The Mathematical Shape of Things to Come
...use of this piecemeal approach to big data analysis, but Yale University mathematician Ronald Coifman says that what is really needed is the big data equivalent of a Newtonian revolution,...
A Brazilian Wunderkind Who Calms Chaos
...and is basically unstoppable.” Avila has also studied the evolution of quantum states in physical systems governed by “quasi-periodic Schrödinger operators,” which are crude models for quasicrystals, structures that have...
How Quantum Pairs Stitch Space-Time
...where long-term predictions require powerful computers to simulate an approximation of the system’s evolution. In general, the more objects in the system, the more difficult the calculation, and that difficulty...
Physicists Hunt for the Big Bang’s Triangles
...said. “But you could say the same thing about evolution, right? There’s a limited number of fossils, and yet we have a pretty good idea of what happened, and it’s...