A newly published analysis of four fossil molar teeth from a monkey dug up along the left bank of the Yuruá River in the Peruvian Amazon is causing a great deal of evolutionary confusion.¹ The problem is that this particular type of monkey has only been found previously in rocks of the same strata in North Africa.

New testing kits provide a rapid and fairly accurate method of assessing coronavirus infection. In one new study using these kits, the results are revealing some new underlying trends in the COVID-19 pandemic.^1,2 In some ways, these results are encouraging and in other ways they give cause for concern.

Biological systems that allow organisms to function, grow, and adapt bear the hallmarks of being exquisitely engineered. These complex systems exhibit the same design principles that human engineers use to create successful machines and devices.

New York City has become one of the largest epicenters of confirmed cases in the United States for coronavirus infections.