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Why did our ancestors start walking upright? Ancient terrain may hold clue.

26/05/2013 21:13

A study suggests that rocky landscapes in East and South Africa could have pushed our apelike ancestors toward bipedalism. Being four-legged has its perks. As a quadruped, your center of gravity is lower, there's less wind resistance when you're running, and, best of all, you can use your hind...

Study Reveals Important Step in Photosynthesis Evolution

26/05/2013 21:03

Source: AMNH press release New research out of the American Museum of Natural History in New York is the first to provide definitive proof that green algae eat bacteria. The finding, captured with electron microscope images, offers a glimpse at how scientists think early organisms acquired...

Encouraging signs for bee biodiversity

26/05/2013 07:28

by Staff Writers Leeds UK (SPX) May 27, 2013 Declines in the biodiversity of pollinating insects and wild plants have slowed in recent years, according to a new study. Researchers led by the University of Leeds and the Naturalis Biodiversity Centre in the Netherlands found evidence of dramatic...

Remarkable Historical Reincarnation Cases Or Pure Coincidences?

24/05/2013 13:22

24 May, 2013 MessageToEagle.com - How can these people who lived in entirely different times look almost identical? The belief in reincarnation can be found in many cultures around the world. The Transmigration of the Soul forms the basis of the earliest religious beliefs and the theory was also...

New discovery of ancient diet shatters conventional ideas of how agriculture emerged

24/05/2013 08:25

by Staff Writers Leicester UK (SPX) May 23, 2013 have made a discovery in southern subtropical China which could revolutionise thinking about how ancient humans lived in the region. They have uncovered evidence for the first time that people living in Xincun 5,000 years ago may have practised...

Origins of human culture linked to rapid climate change

24/05/2013 08:23

by Staff Writers Cardiff UK (SPX) May 24, 2013 Rapid climate change during the Middle Stone Age, between 80,000 and 40,000 years ago, during the Middle Stone Age, sparked surges in cultural innovation in early modern human populations, according to new research. [Read more] ...

A Roadmap for the Future of Astrobiology

24/05/2013 08:20

by Aaron L. Gronstalfor Astrobiology Magazine Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 23, 2013 The NASA Astrobiology Program has started the process of outlining future research directions at the organization. Roughly every ten years, the program updates NASA's official Astrobiology Roadmap - a document that...

How science takes the Bible to bits

23/05/2013 15:07

14 May 2013 by Bob Holmes Magazine issue 2916. THE Bible has been called "the greatest story ever told". Steve Jones begs to differ. In The Serpent's Promise, Jones, a British geneticist and outspoken anti-religionist, sets out to retell the Bible from the point of view of science. Well, not...

Mindscapes: First interview with a dead man

23/05/2013 15:04

12:39 23 May 2013 by Helen Thomson Name: Graham Condition: Cotard's syndrome "When I was in hospital I kept on telling them that the tablets weren't going to do me any good 'cause my brain was dead. I lost my sense of smell and taste. I didn't need to eat, or speak, or do anything. I ended up...

Introduction: The Human Brain

23/05/2013 15:02

11:58 04 September 2006 by Helen Philips The brain is the most complex organ in the human body. It produces our every thought, action, memory, feeling and experience of the world. This jelly-like mass of tissue, weighing in at around 1.4 kilograms, contains a staggering one hundred billion nerve...

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