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Cognitive Sciences
Social challenges affect cognitive functions and can impair academic performance.

 

Evolution
Variety in locomotion evolved in response to both adaptive and functional pressures. 
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Medicine
Trypanosome transfers resistance and virulence elements to other cells via extracellular vesicles.

 

Ecology
Big impact on a lake ecosystem by small feeders, it is all in the numbers.
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