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The Center for Indigenous Science uses Indigenous Science frameworks to provide alternative scientific models, promoting research that is ethical, sustainable, and community-focused.

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Entomology professor Esther Ngumbi studies how two varieties of tomato plants and tobacco hornworm larvae respond to flooding. The hornworm caterpillars are enclosed in plastic bags affixed to the tomato plants.
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Drowning tomatoes for science
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An aerial view of James Island and James Fort. The Jamestown colony was established in Tsenacomoco, the Algonquian name for the Powhatan chiefdom in the tidewater areas of the Chesapeake Bay and later became the Commonwealth of Virginia. / Jamestown Rediscovery
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Ancient DNA reveals Indigenous dog lineages found at Jamestown, Virginia
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Two hybrid morphs found at the phenotypic transition zone, where hybrids visually appear more mixed between the two parental species.
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Researchers find genetic stability in a long-term Panamanian hybrid zone of manakins
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LaKisha David
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Can genetic genealogy restore family narratives disrupted by the transatlantic slave trade?
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Erinn Dady
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Erinn Dady
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Alida de Flamingh examines two tubes filled with samples collected from museum specimens of cape lion skulls
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Cape Lion was genetically diverse prior to extinction, researchers find
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