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• Bracketing phenogenotypic limits of mammalian hybridization

  November 30, 2018 / Y. Savriama et al. / Royal Society Open Science - There is considerable potential for mammalian hybridization between phenotypically disparate taxa.

• Hemimastigophora is a novel supra-kingdom-level lineage of eukaryotes

  November 14, 2018 / G. Lax et al. / Nature - Phylogenomic analyses place Hemimastigophora outside of all established eukaryote supergroups.

• The not-so-dangerous lives of Neanderthals

  November 14, 2018 / Marta Mirazón Lahr / Nature - In spite of what its title suggests, the actual point of this study is that the lives of Neanderthals were at least AS dangerous as those of other populations.

• DNA testing reveals baffling bird is three species in one

  November 9, 2018 / Ryan F. Mandelbaum / Gizmodo - warblers appear to be reproductively compatible in spite of alleged millions of years of independent evolution

• Paleolithic cave art in Borneo

  November 7, 2018 / M. Aubert et al. / Nature - reports on presumed oldest figurative artwork from anywhere in the world