Elizabeth Kolbert, The Acid Sea, National Geographic Magazine, 2011

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• The carbon dioxide we pump into the air is seeping into the oceans and slowly acidifying them. One hundred years from now, will oysters, mussels, and coral reefs survive?

Atul Gawande, Hellhole, The New Yorker, 2009

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• The United States holds tens of thousands of inmates in long-term solitary confinement. Is this torture?

Gregor Mendel, Experiments on Plant Hybridization, Proceedings of the Nature Research Society of Brünn, 1866

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• Introduced the concepts of dominant and recessive “factors”.
• Postulates two laws of heredity.
• The Law of Segregation. Even though an organism inherits two factors from its parents, it contributes only one of them to its offspring.
• The Law of Independent Assortment. The factors for different traits are sorted separately from one another.

Lyudmila N. Trut, Early Canid Domestication: The Farm-Fox Experiment, American Scientist, 1999

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• Foxes bred for tamability in a 40-year experiment exhibit remarkable transformations that suggest an interplay between behavioral genetics and development.

• Horizon: The Secret Life of the Dog (2010)