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Explore the history of life on Earth, from 3.5-billion-year-old fossils to the vast diversity of species on our planet today.

The simple experiment setup. Image via Wiki Commons. In 1927, physicist Thomas Parnell poured hot pitch into a funnel at the ...

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Researchers from the CUNY Graduate Center, the University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford University found that people do not primarily learn by copying others or by calculating the most likely choice.