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Indian Ancestry Revealed

Thursday, September 24th, 2009 - 09:13:35 - Anuradha Menon

The population of India was founded on two ancient groups that are as genetically distinct from each other as they are from other Asians, according...

Future High-Rise Pyramid Farms

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 - 12:14:17 - Anuradha Menon

The Pyramid Farm, designed by vertical farming guru Dickson Despommier at New York's Columbia University and Eric Ellingsen of the Illinois Institute...

Shy Animals Skew Population Estimates

Sunday, June 14th, 2009 - 17:45:53 - Ehud Rattner

Ecologists may be underestimating species population numbers because only bolder animals are caught in their traps. At a field site near Budapest...

Yeast Reveals Sexual Selection in Action

Saturday, October 18th, 2008 - 10:38:40 - Ehud Rattner

Why did peacocks develop such elaborate tails? A study that tracks how a gene spreads through a population of yeast could finally help answer such...

Can Parasites Influence Language?

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 - 12:42:36 - Ehud Rattner

What do parasites and mountains have in common? They both keep populations apart and drive evolution, say researchers. In the absence of geographical...

Humans Nearly Wiped Out 70,000 Years Ago

Friday, April 25th, 2008 - 22:11:29 - Sarah Gingichashvili

Human beings may have had a brush with extinction 70,000 years ago, an extensive genetic study suggests. The human population at that time was...

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