| | Edge: THE NATURE OF NORMAL HUMAN VARIETY A Talk with Armand Leroi |
 | | Sonic hedgehog is named after a fruit fly gene which when mutated causes bristles to sprout all over the fruit fly larva, hence "hedgehog". |
 | | After the Second World War, when the enormities of Nazi science really hit home — which were in turn the consequence of a much larger racial science, not just in Germany, but everywhere—all right-thinking scientists made a resolute effort to ensure that science would not be bent to such evil purposes again. |
 | | After all, the well-known Australopithecus female "Lucy" was born nearby, but she had died about 200,000 generations before Herto man was even conceived. |
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