Is an organism a sum of its parts, or should they be considered as a whole? New research on ferns shows how the way scientists understand evolution affects how they study life.

Zack Beauchamp is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he covers ideology and challenges to democracy, both at home and abroad. His book on democracy, The Reactionary Spirit, was published 0n July 16.

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In a re-evaluation of Hockett's foundational features that have long dominated linguistic theory—concepts like "arbitrariness ...

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Look for the leftmost and rightmost points of the graph. If the graph extends indefinitely to the left or right, the domain ...

The focus is on the query: what multiplies to 10 and adds to 7.