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Probing question: What is a molecular clock?
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Nov 20, 2008 |
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It doesn't tick, it doesn't have hands, and it doesn't tell you what time of day it is. But a molecular clock does tell time -- on an epoch scale. The molecular clock, explained S. Blair Hedges, is a tool ...
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World's smallest snake found in Barbados
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Aug 03, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's smallest species of snake, with adults averaging just under four inches in length, has been identified on the Caribbean island of Barbados. The species -- which is as thin as ...
Genealogy of scaly reptiles is rewritten
Nov 23, 2005 |
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Penn State scientists have completed the most comprehensive analysis ever of genetic relationships among snakes, lizards, and other scaly reptiles.
Caribbean Amphibians Started with a Single, Ancient Voyage on a Raft from South America
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Jun 06, 2007 |
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Nearly all of the 162 land-breeding frog species on Caribbean islands, including the coqui frogs of Puerto Rico, originated from a single frog species that rafted on a sea voyage from South America about 30-to-50-million ...
Study suggests disaggregate earnings better predict stock prices than aggregate earnings
Feb 19, 2008 |
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As a stockholder when you receive the company’s annual report, do you typically look beyond the earnings per share" Most people don’t, but they may want to start examining these financial statements in more detail according ...
Bumblebees make bee line for gardens
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Jul 23, 2007 |
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Britain's gardens are vital habitats for nesting bumblebees, new research has found. The results come from the National Bumblebee Nest Survey, which are published online in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied ...
Genealogy of scaly reptiles rewritten by new research
Nov 28, 2005 |
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The most comprehensive analysis ever performed of the genetic relationships among all the major groups of snakes, lizards and other scaly reptiles has resulted in a radical reorganization of the family tree of these animals, ...
Women Are Sort of More Tentative Than Men, Aren't They?
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Women hedge, issue disclaimers and ask questions when they communicate, language features that can suggest uncertainty, lack of confidence and low status. But men do the same, according to new research from ...
House-infesting brown dog tick becoming resistant to common pesticides, experts say
Sep 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It's bad enough that the Southeast is bedeviled by a tick that doesn't mind taking up residence inside homes. But now researchers say they believe the brown dog tick has developed resistance ...
Scientists narrow time limits for human, chimp split
Dec 20, 2005 |
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A team of researchers has proposed new limits on the time when the most recent common ancestor of humans and their closest ape relatives – the chimpanzees – lived. Scientists at Arizona State University and ...
Swiss privacy watchdog to sue Google Street View
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google Inc.'s unstoppable drive to map and photograph the world has run into an immovable object - Switzerland's strict tradition of personal privacy.
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