Evolution encoded
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The major discovery that the world had finished sequencing the human genome, logging the three billion pairs of DNA nucleotides that describe how to make a human being, is described as only the end of the beginning. New discoveries encoding genes indicate that nature has a sophisticated 'programming' for protecting life from catastrophic errors, while it accelerates evolution.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2004
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Vision: a window on consciousness
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Research on visual perception is enabling scientists to study the nature of consciousness on the neurological level. Investigaors are observing the alterations in brain activity that correspond to changing visual perceptions of visual illusions based on ambiguous images.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1999
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