The Bantu Expansion transformed sub-Saharan Africa's linguistic, economic, and cultural composition. Today, more than 240 million people speak one of the more than 500 Bantu languages. It is generally accepted that the ancestors ...
Archaeology
Aug 2, 2022
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Habitat differences help determine changes in the nervous system of tropical butterflies, scientists at the University of Bristol have found.
Evolution
Jul 12, 2022
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As the cherished rainforest in South America's Amazon River region continues to shrink, the river itself now presents evidence of other dangers: the overexploitation of freshwater fish.
Plants & Animals
Jun 8, 2022
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Initiatives using non-native tree species can impact tropical insects in neighboring forests, according to an international study.
Ecology
Jun 7, 2022
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Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History researcher Murilo Pastana and his colleagues have discovered and described two new species of Amazonian fish—one with striking red-orange fins and the other so small it is ...
Plants & Animals
May 16, 2022
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Tiny beetles that feed on fruit from the palm family may have developed their taste for coconuts long ago, according to a Penn State-led team of scientists studying suspected insect damage in a 60-million-year-old fossil.
Paleontology & Fossils
Apr 25, 2022
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In a paper published today in Nature Communications, a team led by scientists from the University of California, Irvine, using climate models and satellite data, reveal for the first time how protecting tropical forests can ...
Environment
Apr 13, 2022
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Plant-foliage-derived gases drive a previously unknown atmospheric phenomenon over the Amazon rainforest, according to a recent study by researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).
Earth Sciences
Apr 6, 2022
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Using a previously published and carefully curated 68-gene dataset, the scientists ran a battery of mathematical models to reconstruct the evolution of protein sequences—the results of which, have been published today in ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 22, 2022
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The Amazon rainforest is likely losing resilience, data analysis from high-resolution satellite images suggests. This is due to stress from a combination of logging and burning—the influence of human-caused climate change ...
Environment
Mar 7, 2022
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