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Rob DeSalle

Rob DeSalle is Curator, Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), where he has curated several special exhibitions, including “Brain: The Inside Story.”

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Despite warnings by biologists and geneticists, eminent individuals and venerable institutions helped promote a false theory that led to sterilizations and genocide.

Fossilized cell remnants in 3.4 billion-year-old bedrock are from primitive microbes. 

Frog hoppers piercing plants with their mouthparts produce negative pressures exceeding a megapascal. 

An Okinawa citrus species arose two million years ago when the Ryukyu archipelago disconnected from Asia.