News tagged with shared ancestry

Do Americans have an identity crisis when it comes to race and ethnicity?

Say goodbye to Italian-Americans and German-Americans and say hello to Vietnamese-Americans, Salvadoran-Americans and a bunch of other hyphenated Americans.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Potential for incorrect relationship identification in new forensic familial searching techniques

New research suggests that unrelated individuals may be mistakenly identified as genetic family members due to inaccurate genetic assumptions. This is particularly relevant when considering familial searching: a new technique ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Researchers find gene critical to sense of smell in fruit fly

(Medical Xpress) -- Fruit flies don't have noses, but a huge part of their brains is dedicated to processing smells. Flies probably rely on the sense of smell more than any other sense for essential activities ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

For certain orchids, relatives more important than pollinators in shaping floral attractants

Bees, bats, and moths all follow their noses in search of food from flowers. Plants that rely on such animals for pollination often produce particular chemical scents that attract specific pollinators. However, ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New genetic evidence confirms coyote migration route to Virginia and hybridization with wolves

Changes in North American ecosystems over the past 150 years have caused coyotes to move from their native habitats in the plains and southwestern deserts of North America to habitats throughout the United States.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

DNA study suggests Asia was settled in multiple waves of migration

An international team of researchers studying DNA patterns from modern and archaic humans has uncovered new clues about the movement and intermixing of populations more than 40,000 years ago in Asia.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Exercise can produce healthy chatter between bone, fat and pancreatic cells

Cells in bone, fat and the pancreas appear to be talking to each other and one thing they likely are saying is, "Get moving."

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Not just skin deep -- CT study of early humans reveals evolutionary relationships

CT scans of fossil skull fragments may help researchers settle a long-standing debate about the evolution of Africa's Australopithecus, a key ancestor of modern humans that died out some 1.4 million years ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Confirmed: Sunflower domesticated in US, not Mexico

New genetic evidence presented by a team led by Indiana University biology doctoral graduate Benjamin Blackman confirms the eastern United States as the single geographic domestication site of modern sunflowers. ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Team finds Type Ia supernovae parents

Type Ia supernovae are violent stellar explosions whose brightness is used to determine distances in the universe. Observing these objects to billions of light years away has led to the discovery that the universe is expanding ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Ancestry of polar bears traced to Ireland

An international team of scientists has discovered that the female ancestor of all living polar bears was a brown bear that lived in the vicinity of present-day Britain and Ireland just prior to the peak of ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 5 | with audio podcast


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