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Humans may be losers if technological nature replaces real thing

harminka — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:03:45 -0500

There are Web cams focused on falcons, ferrets and fish, virtual tours of the Grand Canyon and Yosemite, and robotic dogs, seals and even dinosaurs. But what about the real deal: observing animals in their natural habitat, hiking the John Muir Trail or a playing with a live pet?

Neanderthal Diet Like Early Modern Human's

ruzik_tuzik — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:16:27 -0600

Neanderthal diets were more like those of early modern humans than previously thought, according to research published today. Remains of a seal showing cut marks where Neanderthals removed meat from the bone (phalanx) discovered in one of the Gibraltar caves.

Age-old magic tricks can provide clues for modern science

harminka — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:25:17 -0500

Revealing the science behind age-old magic tricks will help us better understand how humans see, think, and act, according to researchers at the University of British Columbia and Durham University in the U.K.

Marsupials and humans shared same genetic imprinting 150 million years ago

harminka — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:57:46 -0500

Research published in Nature Genetics by a team of international scientists including the University of Melbourne, Department of Zoology, has established an identical mechanism of genetic imprinting, a process involved in marsupial and human fetal development, which evolved 150 million years ago.

Early parents didn't stand for weighty kids

harminka — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:05:07 -0500

Scientists investigating the reasons why early humans – the so-called hominins – began walking upright say it’s unlikely that the need to carry children was a factor, as has previously been suggested.

You're more like fruit fly than you think...

harminka — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:43:55 -0500

According to researchers at the Monell Center, fruit flies are more like humans in their responses to many sweet tastes than are almost any other species.

Why it pays to be choosy

harminka — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:21:22 -0600

Cooperative behaviour is common in many species, including humans. Given that cooperative individuals can often be exploited, it is not immediately clear why such behaviour has evolved.

Humans and monkeys share Machiavellian intelligence

harminka — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:17:53 -0500

When it comes to their social behavior, people sometimes act like monkeys, or more specifically, like rhesus macaques, a type of monkey that shares with humans strong tendencies for nepotism and political maneuvering, according to research by Dario Maestripieri, an expert on primate behavior and an Associate Professor in Comparative Human Development and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago.

The difference between fish and humans

harminka — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:50:36 -0500

Embryologists at UCL (University College London) have helped solve an evolutionary riddle that has been puzzling scientists for over a century. They have identified a key mechanism in the initial stages of an embryo’s development that helps differentiate more highly evolved species, including humans, from less evolved species, such as fish.

Retrovirus K spread is similar in DNA of humans, rhesus monkeys

harminka — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:03:35 -0500

According to paleontologic and molecular studies, the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) is the closer relative to the humans (Homo sapiens) and that both lineages had a common ancestor at 5 to 7 million years ago. Moreover, the human-chimp lineage split from that of the rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) around 25 million years ago.

Early humans in China 1 million years ago

harminka — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:26:20 -0500

Chronology and adaptability of early humans in different paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental settings are important topics in the study of human evolution.

New research proves single origin of humans in Africa

harminka — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:13:19 -0500

New research published in the journal Nature (19 July) has proved the single origin of humans theory by combining studies of global genetic variations in humans with skull measurements across the world. The research, at the University of Cambridge and funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), represents a final blow for supporters of a multiple origins of humans theory.