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Should we clone Neanderthals?

April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments
Findings Mat of microbes the size of Greece discovered on seafloor
Gargantuan whales and hefty cephalopods are typically thought of as the classic marine mammoths, but they might have to make way for the mighty microbes, which constitute 50 to 90 percent of the oceans’ total biomass, according to newly released data. These tiny creatures…

March 16 2012, 8:02am | Comments
Bookmark What Happened Between the Neanderthals and Us?
The question of what defines the human has, of course, been kicking around since Socrates, and probably a lot longer. If it has yet to be satisfactorily resolved, then this, Pääbo…

March 7 2012, 2:56pm | Comments
Bookmark Neandertal hybridization & Haldane’s rule
Mr. James Winters at A Replicated Typo pointed me to a short hypothesis paper, Neanderthal-human Hybrids. This paper argues that selective mating of Neandertal males with females of human populations which had…

April 28 2011, 3:15am | Comments
Bookmark The Loneliest Whale in the World
...this particular baleen whale has apparently been tracked by NOAA since 1992, using a "classified array of hydrophones employed by the Navy to monitor enemy submarines." It sings at 52 Hertz,…

February 25 2011, 10:04am | Comments
Bookmark Planet Zoo
Look, I wouldn’t trade the 21st century for any other. We have toilet paper and vitamin-fortified milk and a measles vaccine. We can buy avocados in Fairbanks in January. But sometimes,…

September 27 2010, 5:15am | Comments
Bookmark The gut's 'friendly' viruses revealed
In the latest exploration into the universe of organisms inhabiting our bodies, microbiologists have discovered new viral genes in faeces. They find that the composition of virus populations inhabiting the tail…

July 16 2010, 3:49am | Comments

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