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Mediterranean Sea Saved by Monumental Flood | Wired Science | Wired.comA cataclysmic flood could have filled the Mediterranean Sea — which millions of years ago was a dry basin — like a bathtub in the space of less than two years. A new model suggests that at the flood’s peak water poured from the Atlantic into the Mediterranean basin at a rate one thousand times ...
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New dinosaur species may be a missing link -- latimes.comDiscovery of new dinosaur species in South Africa
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Scientists: New dinosaur species found in SAfrica - Yahoo! NewsA newly discovered dinosaur species that roamed the Earth about 200 million years ago may help explain how the creatures evolved into the largest animals on land, scientists in South Africa said Wednesday. The Aardonyx celestae was a small-headed herbivore with huge barrel of a chest, and the ...
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Humans spread out of Africa later | PhysorgModern humans spread out of Africa 20,000 years later than previously thought, according to new genetic research just published. Scientists, including the Natural History Museum’s human origins expert Professor Chris Stringer, re-examined how scientists get dates for key events in human ...
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Earliest Known Bacterial Infection Found : Discovery NewsThe bones of an ancient hominin may hold evidence of the earliest known bacterial infection, according to a team of international researchers who diagnosed the skeleton with a disease called brucellosis. The discovery of the infection may provide insight into the eating habits of these early ...
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Study: Deadly Malaria Strain Came From Chimps : NPRA deadly form of malaria has something in common with HIV. Both appear to have jumped to humans from chimpanzees, according to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study promises to clear up a lot of confusion about the origin of malignant malaria, which kills ...
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The common ancestor of humans, monkeys and apes may have originated in AsiaThe discovery of a new primate fossil in Myanmar (formerly Burma) lends weight to the hypothesis that the common ancestor of humans, monkeys and apes (anthropoid primates) originated in Asia, and not in Africa. To support the hypothesis, an international team of paleontologists, including two ...
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High population density triggers cultural explosions | Science BlogIncreasing population density, rather than boosts in human brain power, appears to have catalysed the emergence of modern human behaviour, according to a new study by UCL (University College London) scientists published in the journal Science. High population density leads to greater exchange ...
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Chimp-made toolkit most complex ever found - Discovery.com- msnbc.comCentral African chimpanzees crave honey so much that they've invented the animal kingdom's most complex known set of tools to get it, according to researchers who found many of the tools still slathered with the syrupy liquid. A new study on the findings, accepted for publication in the Journal ...
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DNA study finds oldest population of humans - Science - NZ Herald NewsDNA study finds oldest population of humans The San people of southern Africa, who have lived as hunter-gatherers for thousands of years, are likely to be the oldest population of humans on Earth, according to the biggest and most detailed analysis of African DNA. The San, also known as ...
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