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Feeding Birds Could Create New Species | Wired Science | Wired.comSomething as simple as feeding birds can change their biological fate, and even seed the formation of a new species. Central European blackcap warblers that spend the winter in the birdfeeder-rich United Kingdom are on a different evolutionary trajectory than those that migrate to Spain. The ...
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Some Biologists Find an Urge in Human Nature to Help - NYTimes.comWe May Be Born With an Urge to Help What is the essence of human nature? Flawed, say many theologians. Vicious and addicted to warfare, wrote Hobbes. Selfish and in need of considerable improvement, think many parents. But biologists are beginning to form a generally sunnier view of ...
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PLoS ONE: Complete Primate Skeleton from the Middle Eocene of Messel in Germany: Morphology and PaleobiologyBackground The best European locality for complete Eocene mammal skeletons is Grube Messel, near Darmstadt, Germany. Although the site was surrounded by a para-tropical rain forest in the Eocene, primates are remarkably rare there, and only eight fragmentary specimens were known until now. ...
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Early Primate Provides Evolution Clues - ABC NewsScientists say a 47-million-year-old fossil found in Germany may be a key link to explaining the evolution of early primates and, perhaps, telling them about developments that led to modern human beings. The fossil, of a young female that probably resembled a modern-day lemur, is described as ...
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What is 'Real'? How Our Brain Differentiates Between Reality and FantasyAnna Abraham and D. Yves von Cramon. “Reality = Relevance? Insights from Spontaneous Modulations of the Brain’s Default Network when Telling Apart Reality from Fiction.” PLoS ONE, March 2009, Volume 4, Issue 3, e4741.
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Nietzche, the Overhuman, and TranshumanismBostrom rejects Nietzsche as an ancestor of the transhumanist movement, as he claims that there were merely some “surface-level similarities with the Nietzschean vision” (Bostrom 2005a, 4). In contrast to Bostrom, I think that significant similarities between the posthuman and the overhuman can ...
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What Makes Us Human? Neanderthal Genome Holds Clues | Wired Science from Wired.comSequencing of the Neanderthal genome
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Parasites In The Genome? Molecular Parasite Could Play An Important Role In Human EvolutionResearchers at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in T?ingen, Germany, determined the structure of a protein (L1ORF1p), which is encoded by a parasitic genetic element and which is responsible for its mobility. The so-called LINE-1 retrotransposon is a mobile genetic element that ...
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The New Science of Human Evolution | Newsweek Technology | Newsweek.comNEWSWEEK's Sharon Begley, on why the story of our origins isn't as clear-cut as we had thought.
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