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Ancestry hunters' bonanza as London records go online

Some 77 million documents dating from the 16th to the 20th centuries and including the ancestors of David Beckham and Britney Spears are to go online, under a service launched Thursday.

Technology / Internet

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Scientists determine family tree for most-endangered bird family in the world

Using one of the largest DNA data sets for a group of birds and employing next-generation sequencing methods, Smithsonian scientists and collaborators have determined the evolutionary family tree for one of ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Colourful boundary trespassers: burrowing parrots crossed the Andes 120,000 years ago

The Andes of southern South America form a hostile mountain range with glaciers, salty deserts and meagre high elevation steppes. Birds from more moderate climate zones cross this mountain range only rarely. ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

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Fulbright scholar takes ecological theory to Andean heights

For 2011 Fulbright awardee James Elser, Argentina's soaring, glacier-laden peaks, ancient cultures, and criollo horses offer a spectacular backdrop for this region's biggest draw: access to the "last unpolluted ...

Space & Earth / Environment

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Ancient wheat plague threatens world crops anew

Diseases that ravage wheat fields are as old as time itself. The ancient Romans even had a legend to explain the terrible plagues.

Biology / Ecology

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Evolution of human 'super-brain' tied to development of bipedalism, tool-making

Scientists seeking to understand the origin of the human mind may want to look to honeybees -- not ancestral apes -- for at least some of the answers, according to a University of Colorado Boulder archaeologist.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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Researchers pinpoint key events in ancient plant evolution

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the University of Florida and six other institutions have unlocked some of the key foundations for the evolution of seed and flowering plants.

Biology / Evolution

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Anthropologists link human uniqueness to hunter-gatherer group structure

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the most complex human mysteries involves how and why we became an outlier species in terms of biological success.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 10, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Origin of birds confirmed by exceptional new dinosaur fossils

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chinese scientists today reveal the discovery of five remarkable new feathered dinosaur fossils which are significantly older than any previously reported. The new finds are indisputably older ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (21) | comments 1

Europe's first farmers replaced their Stone Age hunter-gatherer forerunners

(PhysOrg.com) -- DNA study suggests that further waves of prehistoric immigration are waiting to be discovered. Central and northern Europe's first farmers were immigrants with barely any ancestral ties to the modern population, ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 4

Early family ties: No sponge in the human family tree

Since the days of Charles Darwin, researchers are interested in reconstructing the "Tree of Life", and in understanding the development of animal and plant species during their evolutionary history. In the case of vertebrates, ...

Biology / Evolution

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0


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