Driven up a tree; botanist Margaret D. Lowman opened up the tops of the rain forest for science

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Botanist Margaret Lowman has specialized in the study of the rainforest canopy, in Australia, Peru, Belize, Cameroon, Panama, and Samoa. Because the difficulty of access, such areas have remained largely unexplored.

United States, Botanists, Lowman, Margaret D.

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Six billion and counting

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At age 68, Paul Ehrlich remains devoted to the concepts that made him an academic superstar in his 1968 book "The Population Bomb'. His current research centers on evolutionary biology.

Interview, Personalities, Environmentalists, Environmental activists, Population biology, Ehrlich, Paul R.

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Uprooting the tree of life

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New research on evolution indicates that the consensus view of the universal tree of life is too simple. The relationship between bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes is discussed.

Eukaryotic cells, Cells (Biology), Eukaryotes, Bacteria, Microorganisms, Archaeabacteria, Archaebacteria

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