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			When fighting leukemia, evolutionary history matters - December 2011 In the next few months, college students across the country will be offered the chance to save a life by swabbing cells from the insides of their cheeks and registering as a potential marrow donor with Be The Match®. The Give A Spit About Cancer campaign, which launched in October, helps college students organize marrow donor registry drives. The cells collected in these drives are used to figure out who might be able to donate marrow or blood stem cells to a patient with a life-threatening disease like leukemia. While ethnicity is irrelevant to most medical procedures, marrow and blood stem cell transplants are an exception to this rule. Read the rest of the story | See the Evo in the News archive

Ancient fossils and modern climate change: The work of Jennifer McElwain This research profile examines how scientist Jennifer McElwain studies plant evolution in order to understand the history and patterns of global climate change.		The Arthropod Story This interactive investigation delves into the amazing world of the arthropods and examines their success and their evolutionary constraints.
The genes that lie beneath: The work of Leslea Hlusko This research profile examines how the scientist Leslea Hlusko studies modern baboons to achieve a better understanding of ancient hominid evolution.		Similarities and differences: Understanding homology and analogy Sometimes similarity is inherited and sometimes it is not. Find out how common ancestry and convergent evolution can both cause biological similarities.