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Poaching drove the evolution of tusk-free elephants

Enlarge (credit: Bisakha Datta / Getty Images ) In the wake of severe poaching problems, some wildlife authorities have resorted to removing the horns of rhinos in order to eliminate the reason they’re poached in the first place. It turns out that, in the wake of a serious poaching event, evolution came up with a […]

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The proof’s in the poop: Austrians have loved beer, blue cheese for 2, 700 years

Enlarge / A 2, 700-year-old piece of human excrement found at the Hallstatt salt mines, in which beans, millet, and barley are clearly visible (assuming one wishes to look that closely). Ancient Iron Age miners in what is now Austria were quite fond of beer and blue cheese, according to a new analysis, published in […]

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New genomic analysis sorts out when Polynesians reached which islands

Enlarge / The Island of Rarotonga, which the new study suggests was settled around 830 CE by people arriving from the vicinity of Samoa. (credit: Matthew Williams-Ellis / Getty Images) The spread of the Polynesian culture across the Pacific was the greatest migration in humanity’s history. All indications are that the Polynesians started in Taiwan […]

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Recent Ebola outbreak emerged from someone infected 5 years earlier

Enlarge / Health care workers don protective equipment before working with Ebola patients. (credit: Bloomberg / Getty Images) A large international research group released a paper today suggesting that Ebola viruses can emerge from five years of dormancy to start off a new outbreak of infections. While this isn’t the first instance in which Ebola re-emerged […]

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Denisovans made multiple contributions to Pacific island populations

Enlarge / The home territory of New Guinea highland populations. (credit: Marc Dozier) The inhabitants of the Pacific came in waves. Aboriginal Australians were the first to cross the area, and they were followed by separate populations that inhabited New Guinea and nearby island chains. Later still, the Polynesians, descendants of early East Asians, spread […]

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Million-year-old mammoth DNA rewrites animal’s evolutionary tree

Enlarge / A mammoth tusk thaws out of the ground in Siberia. Ancient DNA has revolutionized how we understand human evolution, revealing how populations moved and interacted and introducing us to relatives like the Denisovans, a “ghost lineage” that we wouldn’t realize existed if it weren’t for discovering their DNA. But humans aren’t the only […]

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Dire wolves aren’t wolves at all—they form a distinct lineage with jackals

Enlarge (credit: Wikimedia commons) Dire wolves had a burst of newfound fame with their appearance in Game of Thrones, where they were portrayed as a far larger version of more mundane wolves. Here in the real world, only the largest populations of present-day wolves get as large as the dire wolf, which weighed nearly 70 […]

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America Requires a National Guard for scientists

All of them have their roots in disasters, Which Range from the Great Depression and the Second World War to the Cold War and also 9/11. Crises have constantly been catalysts for institutional renewal and reinvention, along with the coronavirus pandemic will not be any exception. But now, when we all could see is emergency […]

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Domestication has done Quite Bizarre Items to the genomes of goldfish

Expand (charge: Jordan Hartig) People have domesticated a significant number of creatures above their history, a few for meals, some as guards and companions. A couple of species–believe animals such as rabbits and guinea pigs–have partially shifted between both of these groups — presently serving as both pets and food. However one species has abandoned […]

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Historical skull a Fresh window on Individual migrations, Denisovan Encounters

Expand / All these excavations identified Denisovan DNA inside the sediment. The Denisovans occupy an extremely bizarre place in humankind’s history. Such as the Neanderthals, they’re an {} branch away from the lineage that made modern people and afterwards intermingled with modern people. But we had understood of Neanderthals for about 150 years until we […]