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Happy Caturday! 😺When we look at our cats curling up for a long nap, we may ask how did this "ferocious" creature make its leap off the African plain? 🐈

To answer this question, and others like "do lions and tigers meow," we can look to the research of Jonathan Losos, scientist and cat lover.

In his free, hybrid Evolution Matters talk and book presentation he will present fascinating ideas from his new book "The Cat’s Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa" . Jonathan is Director, Living Earth Collaborative; William H. Danforth Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences, Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis.

Saturday, September 21, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm. Register to attend in person or online: https://tinyurl.com/CatsMeowTalk.

“[A] labyrinth of fascinating riddles explored by Jonathan Losos—himself a lifelong ailurophile as well as an eminent evolutionary biologist—in this engaging and very smart book.” —David Quammen, author of The Song of the Dodo and Breathless
https://tinyurl.com/CatsMeowBook

Even bees need dance lessons! Bees use their “waggle dance” to point each other toward food, and they need lessons to perform it properly.

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Just one session of hot Hatha yoga a week appears to be sufficient in decreasing moderate to severe depression symptoms by half.

Treating Depression With Just One Dose a Week - Science in the News

By studying how the cell repairs DNA damage, researchers have developed a new technology to edit large DNA fragments in bacteria cells.

Nature Teaches Us How to Edit DNA - Science in the News