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[Life's Secrets Sought in a Snowflake](https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151103-snowflake-yeast-multicellularity/)
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[The Woman Who Stared at Wasps](https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151105-social-insects-eusociality/)
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