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A flying what? Symbiosis retracts paper claiming new species arise from...

In 2009, Donald Williamson made what many biologists said was an extraordinary claim: The reason caterpillars become butterflies is that two different species accidentally mated with one another. As...

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Chimp ‘culture’ paper retracted after authors spot errors, now has home at...

The authors of a 2011 paper claiming that chimp “culture” has more to do with local habitats than with where the chimps live have retracted it after finding mistakes in their work. Here’s the notice...

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Case Western explains why it withdrew press release about Andrulis origin of...

The wild and woolly saga of the paper that claims to solve “the puzzle of the origin and evolution of cellular life in the universe” continues. Yesterday, Ivan wrote on his Tumblr about Case Western’s...

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Toothless wonder? Paper on “oldest human fossil in Europe” temporarily...

A paper about a high-profile human fossil has been mysteriously removed from the journal that published it just two weeks ago. Here’s the notice for “The oldest human fossil in Europe dated to ca. 1.4...

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Authors retract Nature paper on bird-like footprints thought to date to Late...

Two of three authors in Argentina of a 2002 paper purporting to show evidence of bird-like fossil footprints from the Late Triassic age have retracted it after subsequent research suggested their...

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Entomologist surprised to find name on now-retracted paper alleging fossils...

The Journal of Biology and Life Science, published by the Macrothink Institute, has retracted a paper that claimed “fossil does not provides [sic] the convincing and direct evidences for evolution,”...

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Biologist critiques own paper, journal retracts it — against her wishes

The journal Evolution has retracted a 2007 paper about the roles of the different sexes in searching for mates, after the same author critiqued the work in a later paper.  The case raises important...

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Why that Evolution paper should never have been retracted: A reviewer speaks out

Earlier this week, we covered the case of a retraction that happened against one of the author’s wishes. That’s not all that unusual. What was unusual in this story, however, is that the author who...

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