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  Brain Parts Can Evolve Independently, Shows Analysis of Brains of 10,000 Mice

  September 26, 2012 — Scientists have found compelling evidence that parts of the brain can evolve independently from each other. The brains of approximately 10,000 mice were analyzed. Seven individual parts of each brain ... > full story
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  Large Bacterial Population Colonized Land 2.75 Billion Years Ago

  September 24, 2012 — New University of Washington research suggests that early microbes might have been widespread on land, producing oxygen and weathering pyrite, an iron sulfide mineral, which released sulfur and ... > full story
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  Study Shows Ancient Relations Between Language Families

  September 20, 2012 — How do language families evolve over many thousands of years? How stable over time are structural features of languages? Researchers introduced a new method using Bayesian phylogenetic approaches to ... > full story
• Fossils
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  CT Scan and 3-D Print Help Scientists Reconstruct an Ancient Mollusk

  September 19, 2012 — Using a combination of traditional and innovative model-building techniques, scientists have created a lifelike reconstruction of an ancient mollusk, a multiplacophoran, offering a vivid portrait of ... > full story
• Nature of Water
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  How Life Arose on Earth: Researchers Brew Up Organics on Ice

  September 18, 2012 — Would you like icy organics with that? Maybe not in your coffee, but researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are creating concoctions of organics, or carbon-bearing molecules, on ice in the ... > full story
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  Little Ice Age Led to Migration of Island Hopping Arctic Foxes

  September 11, 2012 — The Little Ice Age allowed a new wave of arctic foxes to colonise Iceland, according to new research. A "bridge" of sea ice appeared during a dip in temperatures between 200 to 500 years ago allowing ... > full story
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  Human Impact Felt on Black Sea Long Before Industrial Era

  September 4, 2012 — Researchers have pieced together a unique history of the Danube River delta and watershed that ultimately provides evidence for a transformative impact of humans on the Black Sea over hundreds, if ... > full story
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  Simplifying Genetic Codes to Look Back in Time

  August 26, 2012 — Researchers show simpler versions of the universal genetic code can still function in protein synthesis. In addition to understanding early primordial organisms, the research could lead to ... > full story
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  Bird Louse Study Shows How Evolution Sometimes Repeats Itself

  August 16, 2012 — Birds of a feather flock together and -- according to a new analysis -- so do their lice. A study of the genetic heritage of avian feather lice indicates that their louse ancestors first colonized a ... > full story
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  A GPS in Your DNA

  August 16, 2012 — Scientists have devised a method for more precisely determining the geographical location of a person's ancestral origins based on a model of genetic traits for every coordinate on the globe. He says ... > full story

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