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Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Use this tag for general biology questions, but also use more specific life science tags to accompany this one if applicable.

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Is race a discredited scientific concept in biology?

Long and Kittles provide the following breakdown of biological theories of race in the last century or so: Essentialist [Hooton (1926)] "A great division of mankind, characterized as a group …
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Is there a deep, hot biosphere?

Thomas Gold claims that oil is not aging vegetal or animal matter, but rather made continously from bacteria deep in the Earth's mantle (a 'deep hot biosphere') so that we would effectively never have …
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