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Out of Africa? Data Fail to Support Language Origin in Africa
Last year, a report claiming
to support the idea that the
origin of language can be
traced to West Africa
appeared in Science. The
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Explosive Evolution Need Not Follow Mass Extinctions, Study of Ancient Zooplankton Finds
Fossil record of graptoloids
challenges the theory that
immediately after a mass
extinction, species develop
new physical traits at a
... > full story
Tiny Primate Is Ultrasonic Communicator
Tarsiers' ultrasonic calls
-- among the most extreme in
the animal kingdom -- give
them a "private channel" of
communication, says an
anthropologist. ... > full story
Charter Service: Encasing the Magna Carta
You often hear about the
Framers of the Constitution,
but not so much the framers
of the Magna Carta. They
work for the U.S. National
Institute of Standards and
... > full story
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More Than Just Packaging, the Genome Affects the Way Our Genes Change and Develop, Researcher Says
February 13, 2012 — Since Charles Darwin first put forth the theory of evolution, scientists have been trying to unlock the mysteries of genetics. But research on the genome -- the organism's entire hereditary package ... > full story -
Ancient Seagrass Holds Secrets of the Oldest Living Organism on Earth
February 7, 2012 — It's big, it's old and it lives under the sea -- and now an international research collaboration has confirmed that an ancient seagrass holds the secrets of the oldest living organism on Earth. ... > full storyMore: -
Entire Genome of Extinct Human Decoded from Fossil
February 7, 2012 — Scientists have completed the genome sequence of a Denisovan, a representative of an Asian group of extinct humans related to ... > full story -
Neanderthal Demise Due to Many Influences, Including Cultural Changes
February 7, 2012 — Although many anthropologists believe that modern humans ancestors "wiped out" Neanderthals, it's more likely that Neanderthals were integrated into the human gene pool thousands of years ago during ... > full story -
Fossil Cricket Reveals Jurassic Love Song
February 6, 2012 — The love song of an extinct cricket that lived 165 million years ago has been brought back to life by scientists. The song – possibly the most ancient known musical song documented to date ... > full story -
Tree Rings May Underestimate Climate Response to Volcanic Eruptions
February 5, 2012 — Some climate cooling caused by past volcanic eruptions may not be evident in tree-ring reconstructions of temperature change because large enough temperature drops lead to greatly shortened or even ... > full story -
Global Extinction: Gradual Doom Is Just as Bad as Abrupt
February 3, 2012 — Around 250 million years ago, most life on Earth was wiped out in an extinction known as the "Great Dying." Geologists have learned that the end came slowly from thousands of centuries of volcanic ... > full story -
A Battle of the Vampires, 20 Million Years Ago?
February 3, 2012 — They are tiny, ugly, disease-carrying little blood-suckers that most people have never seen or heard of, but a new discovery in a one-of-a-kind fossil shows that "bat flies" have been doing their ... > full story -
First Plants Caused Ice Ages, New Research Reveals
February 1, 2012 — New research reveals how the arrival of the first plants 470 million years ago triggered a series of ice ages. The research reveals the effects that the first land plants had on the climate during ... > full story -
Scientists Prove Plausibility of New Pathway to Life's Chemical Building Blocks
January 31, 2012 — Scientists have demonstrated an alternative pathway to life-essential sugars called the glyoxylate scenario, which may push the field of pre-life chemistry past the formose reaction ... > full story
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