Tag Archive | "evolution"

Ice: the Cradle of Life?

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

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Ice: the Cradle of Life?

It is one of the most sought after answers in modern science: where did life come from? How did those first molecules put themselves together in such a way as to form molecular machinery capable of reproducing itself and thereby fueling the creation of the vast and amazing diversity we see on this planet today?

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Natural History Museum Celebrates Charles Darwin

Friday, September 12, 2008

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Natural History Museum Celebrates Charles Darwin

Nearly 200 years after his birth, the ideas that Charles Darwin came to embody are still nearly as controversial today as they were when he published Origin of Species. The Natural History Museum in London, however, has decided to ignore the controversy for the most part and focus on the great contributions Darwin made to the field of biology.

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Stalin’s Deranged Vision of a Human-Ape Super Race

Thursday, June 5, 2008

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The Institute of Experimental Pathology and Therapy was the world’s first ever primate testing centre, revolutionary in its medical discoveries and responsible for sending monkeys into outer space. The institute which was once the envy of the West, is now a dilapidated shell of its former glory. [...]

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How Fast Can Evolution Move, Exactly?

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

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It’s always been a cornerstone of Darwinian theory that evolution moves at an achingly slow pace. So slow in fact, that us humans can’t notice it and have to examine the archaeological record to confirm it. Image from estelucy Recently, however, there have been some high-profile exceptions to that, [...]

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Scientists Recreate Neanderthal Voices

Thursday, April 17, 2008

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Thanks to some very complex research and a computer synthesizer, scientists have obtained a rough estimation of what a Neanderthal voice must have sounded like. OOG! Image from Flickr That’s a very basic building block, and perhaps the only one we’ll ever obtain, towards figuring out the language [...]

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The World’s Fastest Evolving Animal

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

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A recent study has found that the tuatara, a “living dinosaur” found in New Zealand, is the fastest evolving animal in the world. The tuatara is an ecological oddity. While it resembles a lizard, it’s equally related to both lizards and snakes. This has made

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The Mystery of the Murdered Sea Mammals

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

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The Galapagos Islands are world famous for their environment. Who is massacring sea lions on the Galapagos Islands? Image by Carlos Ponte But now it seems that the islands’ ecology and environment are being threatened by their own growing popularity, alien animal species, even

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Elephants Evolve Smaller Tusks Due to Poaching

Sunday, January 20, 2008

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A species’ evolution has long been thought to take thousands of years to produce seemingly minor changes. It appears that in at least one case, however, evolution is occurring at what seems

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Mother Earth: The Evolution of Man

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

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Welcome to the 12th post in the series we’re calling Mother Earth. So far

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Mother Earth: Mammals: The Underdogs Triumph

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

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Welcome to the 11th post in the series we’re calling Mother Earth. So far we’ve covered

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