An international team of Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Irish scientists has used whole genome sequencing to characterize 53 herring populations from the Atlantic Ocean and the Baltic Sea. They have developed genetic markers ...
Ecology
Dec 15, 2020
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University of Oregon scientists are probing archaeological evidence for how indigenous peoples used sea otters, and their findings could help Alaskans confront growing numbers of the mammals and Oregonians who want to reintroduce ...
Archaeology
Jun 2, 2020
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Who could imagine a 21st century without data? Sophisticated information processing is key to the way societies function today. And it turns out it was also critical to the evolution of early states. According to new research ...
Archaeology
May 27, 2020
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Reconstructing how many individuals first settled the many small islands in the Pacific and when they arrived remain important scientific questions, as well as an intriguing ones for understanding human history. Human migrations ...
Evolution
Apr 15, 2020
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Neanderthal DNA sequences may be more common in modern Africans than previously thought, and different non-African populations have levels of Neanderthal ancestry surprisingly similar to each other, finds a study publishing ...
Archaeology
Jan 30, 2020
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Researchers from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE, a joint institute of the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)) in Barcelona and the Globe Institute at the University ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 12, 2019
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The genetic history of a critically endangered songbird shows its best chance of survival is to protect its rapidly disappearing habitat.
Plants & Animals
Oct 30, 2019
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Over the last 2000 years Christianity has grown from a tiny religious sect to the largest family of religions in the world. How did Christianity become so successful? Did Christianity spread through grass-roots movements ...
Social Sciences
Jul 31, 2018
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The invention of agriculture changed humans and the environment forever, and over several thousand years, the practice originated independently in a least a dozen different places. But why did agriculture begin in those places, ...
Archaeology
Jun 4, 2018
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An international team of researchers, led by Johannes Krause and Choongwon Jeong from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (Jena, Germany), and Abdeljalil Bouzouggar from the Institut National des Sciences ...
Archaeology
Mar 15, 2018
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