This article was co-authored with Emma Myer, a student at Washington and Lee University who studies Cognitive/Behavioral Science and Strategic Communication. In today’s digital age, social media has ...

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The functional synthesis of molecular evolution provides independent corroboration of statistical inferences that have been drawn from sequence analyses. The functional synthesis of molecular ...