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Pecan butter tart, a desert at some Canadian Thanksgiving meals. HISAKAZU WATANABE/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS VIA CC BY SA 2.0

Butter Tarts are New Pumpkin Pie for Canadian Thanksgiving

Isabelle Panza October 20, 2019
Presidential pardons of turkeys, mothers stressing over what to put in the stuffing, kids fighting over which end of the wishbone they can take and fathers glued to the TV watching football.
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Yale professor of ornithology, ecology and evolutionary biology, Richard Prum. JUSTIN GOODRIDGE/THE STATESMAN

Yale professor lectures on the role of beauty in evolution

Doyeon Jean Jang February 10, 2019
Yale professor of ornithology, ecology and evolutionary biology, Richard Prum, spoke about Charles Darwin’s “dangerous idea,” in the most recent installment of the Provost’s Lecture Series on Friday, Feb. 8.
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Renowned biologist gives Darwin Day genetics lecture

Gary Ghayrat February 11, 2018
Hopi Hoekstra, Alexander Agassiz professor of zoology and curator of mammals in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, discussed scientist Charles Darwin, what he knew and what he didn’t know at the Earth and Space Sciences Building on Friday, Feb. 9, as part of the Living World Lecture Series of Science Open Nights.
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Stony Brook marks Darwin Day with lecture on mass extinctions

Stony Brook marks Darwin Day with lecture on mass extinctions

Chereen James February 14, 2016
Jablonski said that humans have a moral and scientific obligation to save species that have limited ranges.
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Under the microscope: vegetarian bats

Mallory Locklear February 25, 2014
Dr. Liliana Dávalos studies natural selection in bats by looking at skull features and bite forces.
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