http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. As many as 4,550 of the more than 50,000 plant species in the Amazon will likely disappear because of land-use changes and habitat loss within the next 40 years, according to a new study by two Wake Forest University researchers. http://www.physorg.com/news166376723.html Biology Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:45:55 EST news166376723 According to new research published online in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B (Biological Sciences) on July 1, 2009, a new fossil primate from Myanmar (previously known as Burma) suggests that the common ancestor of humans, monkeys and apes evolved from primates in Asia, not Africa as many researchers believe. http://www.physorg.com/news165643933.html Other Sciences Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:12:49 EST news165643933 Aggressive, vengeful behavior of individuals in some South American groups has been considered the means for men to obtain more wives and more children, but an international team of anthropologists working in Ecuador among the Waorani show that sometimes the macho guy does not do better. http://www.physorg.com/news161281260.html Other Sciences Mon, 11 May 2009 17:21:20 EST news161281260 Colorful poison frogs in the Amazon owe their great diversity to ancestors that leapt into the region from the Andes Mountains several times during the last 10 million years, a new study from The University of Texas at Austin suggests. http://www.physorg.com/news155883644.html Biology Tue, 10 Mar 2009 06:01:26 EST news155883644 (PhysOrg.com) -- A "living fossil" tree species is helping a University of Michigan researcher understand how tropical forests responded to past climate change and how they may react to global warming in the future. The research appears in the November issue of the journal Evolution. http://www.physorg.com/news144604259.html Biology Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:50:59 EST news144604259 Ice age climate change and ancient flooding -but not barriers created by rivers -may have promoted the evolution of new insect species in the Amazon region of South America, a new study suggests. http://www.physorg.com/news136013522.html Biology Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:32:02 EST news136013522