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Fitting In

By Virginia Hughes | February 24, 2012 | 8 Comments

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The new study, certainly not the last word on DNA, was published last week in The EMBO Journal. The music is Chopin’s Minute Waltz, the subject of another post.

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8 Responses to “Fitting In”

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    February 24th, 2012 @ 11:47 pm

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    February 25th, 2012 @ 7:25 am

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    February 26th, 2012 @ 1:45 am

    Ginny, this is stone cold awesome, only less cliched than that term of praise!

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    February 28th, 2012 @ 8:58 pm

    great job. if all science were presented graphically this well, there would be no creationists!

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