News tagged with gene pool
Scandinavians are descended from Stone Age immigrants
Sep 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Today's Scandinavians are not descended from the people who came to Scandinavia at the conclusion of the last ice age but, apparently, from a population that arrived later, concurrently with the introduction ...
China panda population stable: report
Sep 19, 2009 |
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China's wild panda population has remained stable despite last year's Sichuan earthquake that damaged key areas of the endangered species' habitat, state press said Saturday.
Researchers study genetic evolution of African dogs
Aug 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- African village dogs are not a mixture of modern breeds but have directly descended from an ancestral pool of indigenous dogs, according to a Cornell-led genetic analysis of hundreds of semi-feral ...
Environmental cues control reproductive timing and longevity
Jun 25, 2009 |
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When humans and animals delay reproduction because food or other resources are scarce, they may live longer to increase the impact of reproduction, according to a new study by University of Minnesota researchers published ...
Beetles drive groundbreaking conservation project
May 19, 2009 |
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They are cursed the world over for contaminating food supplies and are a huge commercial pest, but the humble flour beetle is about to play a significant role in the management of endangered species.
