Pygmies' stunted growth explains human success
The pygmies of West Africa evolved their short stature independently, and very differently, from their cousins in East Africa, French researchers said Tuesday.
The pygmies of West Africa evolved their short stature independently, and very differently, from their cousins in East Africa, French researchers said Tuesday.
Biotechnology
Jul 28, 2015
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Technological innovation—as essential as ever for economic growth—now occurs in a rapidly changing global and local context.
Other
Jun 10, 2015
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A new paper by Oxford researchers argues that some countries in Western Europe, and the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand now have birth rates that are now relatively close to replacement, that the underlying trend in ...
Social Sciences
Apr 27, 2015
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Thanks to the development of an analytical method, members of the Transport Research Centre (TRANSyT) from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) have established the main factors influencing the GHG emissions trends ...
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 4, 2015
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The days of assuming natural resources can be swapped in and out to solve shortages - corn for oil, soy for beef - may be over. An international group of scientists demonstrate that many key resources have peaked in productivity, ...
Environment
Jan 14, 2015
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As birth rates decline in countries that include parts of Europe and East Asia, threatening the economic slowdown associated with aging populations, a global study from the University of California, Berkeley, and the East-West ...
Social Sciences
Oct 9, 2014
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Researchers from FOM institute AMOLF have discovered that metabolism, the process that converts molecules in a cell, proceeds irregularly. As metabolism is the motor that drives all biological activity in cells this instability ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 3, 2014
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Washington State University researchers have sketched out one of the greatest baby booms in North American history, a centuries-long "growth blip" among southwestern Native Americans between 500 to 1300 A.D.
Archaeology
Jun 30, 2014
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When it comes to smartphones, these days bigger seems to be better.
Consumer & Gadgets
May 16, 2014
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Nancy Strumwasser, a high school teacher from Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, always thought she'd have two children. But the layoffs that swept over the U.S. economy around the time her son was born six years ago helped change ...
Economics & Business
May 7, 2014
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