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Personality pressure

‘Up until now, we didn’t have evidence from nature that natural selection acted on individual variation in behavior’

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DateJuly 5, 2018January 23, 2019

Harvard researchers have solved the nearly 200-year-old mystery of how Rafflesia, the largest flowering plants in the world, develop. The Rafflesia (left) and Sapria closely resemble one another yet are actually built in fundamentally different ways, noted Harvard Professor Charles Davis. While the study sheds new light on how these plants develop, Davis said it may also help to explain how Rafflesia in particular attained such huge flowers.

Stages of bloom

Researchers unravel mystery of how world’s largest flower develops

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DateNovember 4, 2013February 28, 2019

“The ability to throw was one of a handful of changes that enabled us to become carnivores, which then triggered a host of changes that occurred later in our evolution,” said Daniel Lieberman who worked on a study led by recent Ph.D. graduate Neil Roach and others.

Right down the middle, explained

Research: Fast, accurate throwing played key role in evolution

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DateJune 26, 2013July 10, 2019

An intensive, two-week course in plant morphology was the first of what will become an annual summer offering in plant organismic biology at Arnold Arboretum.

A learning gap is filled with plants

Arboretum offers increasingly rare course in their morphology

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DateJune 21, 2013March 29, 2019

An intact cucumber tendril (top) and a fiber ribbon (bottom) that has been extracted from a tendril both coil in the same, predictable way. Studying the cellular structure of these tendrils has helped researchers to understand a new type of spring.

Clues in the cucumber’s climb

Study of creeping plant’s tendrils leads researchers to unusual spring

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DateAugust 30, 2012June 19, 2019