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Explaining Life through Evolution tells the origin story of life on this planet and how we arrived at the tremendous diversity among organisms that we see around us today. In the excerpt below, Prosanta Chakrabarty emphasizes the importance of understanding evolution in everyday contemporary life.   Our Genealogy and Ancestry Why should you care about

In November 2018, the scientific community was shaken to its core and the world at large scandalized by the birth of twin girls in China—babies whose DNA had been edited when they were embryos. They were the first “CRISPR’d” people ever born, an acronym standing for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, a powerful gene

Today, July 1, 2020, Penguin Random House Publisher Services (PRHPS) will begin a multi-year sales and distribution agreement with the MIT Press, one of the largest and most distinguished university presses in the world.   Established in 1962, the MIT Press is a leading publisher of books on science, technology, art, social science, and design.