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The public is invited to the fall semiannual tour of the University of Kansas Native Medicinal Plant Research Garden at 6 p.m. Sept. 22 on the autumnal equinox.
Join us at Free State Brewing Company, 7:30-8:30 PM, Wednesday, September 18, for the next Science on Tap event featuring Dr. Sharon Billings, University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and a senior scientist at the Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research. Billings will discuss how forests in the mountains all over the world are changing how they function as the Earth warms.
Based on the fossil record, it’s been assumed that elapoid snakes, found worldwide, had their origins in Africa. But the new University of Kansas study appearing in Royal Society Open Science — which depends on broad genetic sampling as well as fossils — points instead to Asian origins for these snakes.
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