Showing posts with label evolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label evolution. Show all posts

Friday, July 22, 2011

Brain News - Are we getting stupider, or is our brain becoming more efficient?

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Brother from Siberia - a possible new branch of ancient humans

Is human ancestor in Siberia new member of family tree? - thestar.com
NEW YORK, N.Y.—In the latest use of DNA to investigate the story of
humankind, scientists have decoded genetic material from an unidentified
human ancestor that lived in Siberia and concluded it might be a new
member of the human family tree.
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This undated photo provided by the journal Nature shows a view from a rock above Denisova cave to the excavation field camp in in Altai Mountains of southern Siberia. Scientists have decoded DNA from a human ancestor that lived in Siberia 30,000 to 50,000 years ago _ possibly a new member of the human family tree.
Excavation camp in Southern Siberia in the Altai Mountains.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Ardipithecus ramidus - 4.4 million year old fossil skeleton found

Friday, July 31, 2009

Did comets seed the earth with life?

Did Ocean-Filled Comets Carry the Seeds of Life to Earth? - panspermia - io9
In a paper published in the International Journal of Astrobiology, Chandra Wickramasinghe of the Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology — one of the earliest proponents of the theory of panspermia, that the seeds of life exist throughout the universe — revealed his team's calculation, which indicate that large reserves of water likely existed inside comets in our solar system, that happened to form around the same time as the Earth:
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Thursday, July 16, 2009

Evolution Timeline

Friday, May 1, 2009

Alberta government want to deny kids access to evolution education in schools

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Environmental impacts on human intelligence

Guest Column: Can We Increase Our Intelligence? - Olivia Judson Blog - NYTimes.com

It used to be believed that people had a level of general intelligence with which they were born that was unaffected by environment and stayed the same, more or less, throughout life. But now it’s known that environmental influences are large enough to have considerable effects on intelligence, perhaps even during your own lifetime.



Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Religion: biological accident, adaptation or both.

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Missing Evolutionary Links

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

New Ant Species

Monday, September 15, 2008

Humans are born to run

Born To Run | Human Evolution | DISCOVER Magazine
not only can humans outlast horses, but over long distances and under the right conditions, they can also outrun just about any other animal on the planet