Are bears getting soft on us? After centuries of living in close proximity with people, a population of brown bears has evolved to become unusually calm for a species famous for its mightiness and ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, reports that Italian bears living in areas with many villages evolved and became smaller and less aggressive.

Look at the timeline above. If it's right then polar bears are a very recently derived lineage out of the genetic background of brown bears. But there's a problem. The nuclear DNA, which is most of ...

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