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Stephen Wright, a leading scientist in the emerging field of plant evolutionary genomics, has been appointed dean of the ...

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Why did one hand become so dominant in a lineage famous for using both? A new study says humans may be right-handed because ...

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There is a special kind of tyranny in being born into a world designed for somebody else’s hand. The scissors are wrong.