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Reversing ecology reveals ancient environments
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Feb 25, 2009 |
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From hair color to the ancestral line of parasitic bacteria, scientists can glean a lot from genes. But imagine if genes also revealed where you lived or who you spent time with. It turns out they do, if you know where and ...
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Did increased gene duplication set the stage for human evolution?
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Feb 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Roughly 10 million years ago, a major genetic change occurred in a common ancestor of gorillas, chimpanzees, and humans. Segments of DNA in its genome began to form duplicate copies at a greater ...
Modern Humans, not Neandertals, may be evolutions's 'odd man out'
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Sep 08, 2006 |
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Could it be that in the great evolutionary "family tree," it is we Modern Humans, not the brow-ridged, large-nosed Neandertals, who are the odd uncle out?
'Ancestral eve' was mother of all tooth decay
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Mar 23, 2007 |
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A New York University College of Dentistry (NYUCD) research team has found the first oral bacterial evidence supporting the dispersal of modern Homo sapiens out of Africa to Asia.
Ancient ape ruled out of man's ancestral line
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 07, 2006 |
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Ancient remains, once thought to be a key link in the evolution of mankind, have now been shown to be 400,000 years too young to be a part of man’s family tree.
First 'genetic map' of Han Chinese may aid search for disease susceptibility genes
Nov 25, 2009 |
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The first genetic historical map of the Han Chinese, the largest ethnic population in the world, as they migrated from south to north over evolutionary time. was published online today by the American Journal of Human Ge ...
Study looks at early Navajo use of smoke signals
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Archaeologists and volunteers armed with special flares will fan out over part of the Four Corners region on Saturday to study how early Navajos could have used smoke signals to warn against invaders.
Ancestry attracts, but love is blind
Nov 20, 2009 |
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People preferentially marry those with similar ancestry, but their decisions are not necessarily based on hair, eye or skin colour. Research, published in BioMed Central's open access journal Genome Biology, shows that M ...
Kenya's human fossils disturb church
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Aug 13, 2006 |
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Kenya's National Museum, home to one of the world's greatest collections of human ancestral bones, is caught between religious fundamentalists and scientists.
Biologists call for better choice of model organisms in 'evo-devo'
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Mar 29, 2007 |
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Research in evolutionary developmental biology, known as ‘evo-devo’, is being held back because the dominant model organisms used by scientists are unable to illustrate key questions about evolution, argue biologists in the ...
Self-sacrifice among strangers has more to do with nurture than nature
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Socially learned behavior and belief are much better candidates than genetics to explain the self-sacrificing behavior we see among strangers in societies, from soldiers to blood donors to ...
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