Why did humans evolve the eyes we have today? While scientists can't go back in time to study the environmental pressures ...

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Scientists have now sequenced more than two million bacterial and archaeal genomes, outstripping the ability to perform gold-standard searches for genes. LexicMap is a new tool that can scan millions ...