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Exploring the evolutionary tree of life is now as easy as navigating an online map, thanks to a new interactive website. http://www.OneZoom.org 
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On Rusinga Island in Kenya's Lake Victoria, paleontologist Will Harcourt-Smith is leading an effort to recreate the environments inhabited by primitive primates—apes…...
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A new study of the skull of an early hominin child provides a better understanding of the evolutionary timeline for modern human skulls-and brains.
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Ask any person, from any country‚ to make a fearful face and you'll get the same response-eyebrows raised, eyes wide open, flared nostrils. A disgusted face, on the other hand, shows brows furrowed, eyes narrowed, and a tight mouth. The universal nature of certain facial expressions like fear, disgust, and sadness has led evolutionary scientists to wonder if facial expressions play a more fundamental biological role than just conveying emotion.
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Throughout human evolution, multiple versions of humans co-existed. Could we be mid-upgrade now? At TEDxSummit, Juan Enriquez sweeps across time and space to bring us to the present moment -- and shows how technology is revealing evidence that suggests rapid evolution may be under way. Via Sue Tamani
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There was a time when we shared the planet with Neanderthals and other human species. Somehow, we prevailed. Travel back millions of years with this abstract, animated journey through the evolution of our species.
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The Internet has revolutionized the way we connect and the way we think, speeding up the rate of virtually everything. At times, having so many facts at your fingertips can feel less like an upside and more like a deluge. (There's a reason why Gleick's book is subtitled "a flood.") But fundamental cultural and technological shifts in our relationship to information are hardly unprecedented. They're "part of the evolution of the species," he says.
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How can a "thumbs up" sign help us remember five processes that impact evolution? The story of the Five Fingers of Evolution gives us a clever way of understanding change in gene pools over time.
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When a male lion and a female tiger mate, the resulting offspring is called a Liger — a hybrid big cat that can grow to weigh nearly a ton..
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Please Subscribe To The EvolutionDocumentary YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/EvolutionDocumentary Broadcast (2011) If you have ever wondered what wou...
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A collaborative animation in which I took 5 groups of people and simulated evolution with them in the course of an hour. From those groups I amassed about 46...
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A few years ago, Sir David Attenborough seemed to think so: Attenborough recently changed his tune: I don't think an understanding and an acceptance of the 4 billion-year-long history of life is any way inconsistent with a belief in a supreme being. And I am not so confident as to say that I am an atheist.
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Steven Pinker - Psychologist, Cognitive Scientist, and Linguist at Harvard University How did humans acquire language? In this lecture, best-selling author Steven Pinker introduces you to linguistics, the evolution of spoken language, and the debate over the existence of an innate universal grammar. He also explores why language is such a fundamental part of social relationships, human biology, and human evolution. Finally, Pinker touches on the wide variety of applications for linguistics, from improving how we teach reading and writing to how we interpret law, politics, and literature.
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The point of marriage, after all, is to grow old with someone and develop a sense of trust. Infidelity happens in half of all marriages. Many end in divorce. The institution of marriage seems to be in big trouble, but Ryan says an understanding of the way humans evolved can help us cope.
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httpv://youtu.be/UIKmSQqp8wY Here it is. A short history of the Moon. 4.5 billion years covered in a slick 2.6 minutes, all thanks to NASA's Goddard Space.
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Think your DNA is 100 percent Homo sapiens? Think again. A recent study in the journal Nature reports that at least 40 million years ago, our primate ancestors "invited" a gene from an infecting virus into their genomes. Because this phenomenon adds novelty to a species' DNA makeup, it may represent a newly discovered mode of evolutionary change.
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The human body is a diverse bacterial ecosystem. Humans are hosts to trillions of microbes, most of which are harmless or even beneficial.
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What does it mean to be connected in the 21st century? Hope, interdependence, and possibly the creation of a new consciousness, says Tiffany Shlain. Shlain is the founder of the Webby awards and creator of a new documentary, Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology, which premiered this year at Sundance.
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"Synthetic biology" is the next stage in the evolution of biology as a science. In its purest form, and indeed for purists, it emerged as the idea of applying engineering principles to life science: characterising and cataloguing bits of DNA so they can be assembled into unnatural genetic circuits.
More on... SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=synthetic%20biology
Via Dr. Stefan Gruenwald
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Cellular automata are probably the closest things to machine life that most people have gotten an opportunity to experiment with in recent years. John Conway invented a piece of software titled the Game of Life in 1970. He carefully set up the rules to create a balanced world. While this might sound like old news, it has allowed scientists to actually simulate certain real world systems.
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What tiny parachutes and a man named Wolfgang have to do with the future of all living species.
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From year to year, the moon never seems to change. Craters and other formations appear to be permanent now, but the moon didn't always look like this. Thanks to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, we now have a better look at some of the moon's history. Learn more in this video!
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For a sneak peek of the latest Michio Kaku clip visit http://bigthink.com/ideas/42479...
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September 21, 2013 9:59 AM
A trillion frames per second capturing extreme time frames faster than our chemical reactions can record them .Instead of LSD to see photosynthesis if you like this new science opens flood gates actually seeing things beyond our comprehension. |
