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- - Efforts to sustain biodiversity fall short
  - But the issue is gaining attention as nations prepare for next year's summit.
  - 19 November 2009
- - Biodiversity's bright spot
  - While species losses mount worldwide, conservationists in Brazil have made great strides towards saving the golden lion tamarin and its forest habitat from destruction. Gene Russo reports.
  - 19 November 2009
- - Putting a Price on Nature
  - Gretchen Daily knows the value of ecosystems – but can ascribing financial worth to them help to maintain biodiversity? Emma Marris meets an ecosystem-services evangelist.
  - 19 November 2009
- - On the origin of bar codes
  - Genetic sequences in a cell's mitochondria can be used to accurately determine species. Could this be because they are responsible for creating what they identify? Nick Lane investigates.
  - 19 November 2009
- - Darwin's geological mystery solved
  - Origin of odd South American boulders may have defeated the Origin's author.
  - 20 October 2009
- - Darwin Centre takes doors off museum
  - Scientists are on display at a new Natural History Museum facility.
  - 9 September 2009
- - Turkish scientists claim Darwin censorship
  - Science-funding agency accused of removing evolution article - and its editor - from mainstream magazine.
  - 10 March 2009
- - Hong Kong evolution curriculum row
  - Intelligent design 'debate' sparks controversy.
  - 25 February 2009
- - The other strand
  - Geneticists looked to the human genome to understand human evolution. But it's hard to interpret without considering the inheritance of culture, finds Erika Check Hayden.
  - 11 February 2009
- - Human nature: the remix
  - People's mindsets are neither fixed by evolution nor infinitely malleable by culture. Dan Jones looks for the similarities that underlie the diversity of human nature.
  - 11 February 2009
- - Dutch university slashes evolution staff
  - Leiden researchers launch legal challenge over sackings.
  - 11 February 2009
- - Beyond bones
  - Ricki Lewis reports on biological anthropologists' branching out into crime forensics and science policy.
  - 11 February 2009
- - Goodbye Galapagos goats
  - Conservationists complete the largest-ever eradication of an island-invasive mammal.
  - 27 January 2009
- - The year of the worm?
  - The earthworm is finally inching its way into the genomic age.
  - 16 December 2008
- - The needs of the many
  - The idea that natural selection acts on groups, as well as individuals, is a source of unending debate. Marek Kohn reports on what the two sides disagree about — and why it matters to them.
  - 19 November 2008
- - Systems biology: Beneath the surface
  - Biologists see living systems like mechanical clocks: optimally tuned and prone to failure if one component goes wrong. But, as Tanguy Chouard reveals, this is not what happens in the real world.
  - 19 November 2008
- - Let's make a mammoth
  - Evolution assumes that extinction is forever. Maybe not. Henry Nicholls asks what it would take to bring the woolly mammoth back from the dead.
  - 19 November 2008

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