Neanderthals ate vegetables too! Scientists from MIT and the University of La Laguna in Spain identified human fecal remains from El Salt, a known site of Neanderthal occupation in southern Spain that dates back 50,000 years.[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Evolution’
July 4th, 2014 - 7:24 am § in America
July 4: We Are Not So Dumb!
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has ruled that Americans are slightly dim, very fat country whose government is frequently shutdown and believers in evolution are a minority. Americans are, however, not the dumbest folks in the world. The OECD says we are s[...]
July 9th, 2013 - 6:19 am § in Environment, Misc.
Are Polar Bears Really Irish?
Ancestry of polar bears traced to Ireland An international team of scientists has discovered that the female ancestor of all living polar bears was a brown bear that lived in the vicinity of present-day Britain and Ireland just prior to the peak of the last ice age — 20,000 to 50,000 years ag[...]
May 6th, 2013 - 10:51 pm § in America
Darwin Falls Down
EllenGraceJones tell us Darwin was wrong, and we need to update our model of evolution, She’s a fashion editor. An interesting experiment and indeed correct in that we are still evolving, however to attribute it to the Victorian, matter-based, Darwinian model of evolution is backward-thinking and [...]
March 12th, 2013 - 10:54 pm § in Hypocrisy, Schools & Colleges
Why evolution is wrong
Evolutionary biologists of today are confronted with the problem of explaining how such an enormous amount of information contained in the most basic cell could have been organized into a life form using only chance, material, and time. The historical explanation has been to claim that time on the o[...]
Sequencing Sasquatch!
Researchers at Oxford University and the Lausanne Museum of Zoology in Switzerland are asking yeti enthusiasts or anyone with samples thought to be from the creature alternatively known as Bigfoot or Sasquatch to share them for DNA analysis as part of the Oxford-Lausanne Collateral Hominid Project, [...]
November 23rd, 2012 - 10:42 am § in Misc.
Do Metazoan Mitochondria Cause Aging?
‘Selfish’ DNA in animal mitochondria offers possible tool to study aging Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered, for the first time in any animal species, a type of “selfish” mitochondrial DNA that is actually hurting the organism and lessening its chance t[...]
Rosh Hoshana: First Jew and First Puppy
Genetic study confirms: First dogs came from East Asia Researchers at Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology say they have found further proof that the wolf ancestors of today’s domesticated dogs can be traced to southern East Asia — findings that run counter to theories placi[...]
August 26th, 2012 - 4:24 am § in Religion
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Wrong Asteroid blamed for extinction of dinosaurs
NASA reported last Monday: “As a result of the WISE science team’s investigation, the demise of the dinosaurs remains in the cold case files,” Lindley Johnson, program executive for the Near Earth Object (NEO) Observation Program at NASA. From NASA: According to that theory, [...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: UF study of lice DNA shows first clothes 170,000 years ago
from esciencenews.com David Reed, associate curator of mammals at the Florida Museum of Natural History on the UF campus, studies lice in modern humans to better understand human evolution and migration patterns. His latest five-year study used DNA sequencing to calculate when clothing lice first be[...]