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Preamble
Before we go any further, there are some things you need to know. I am a philosopher at heart, and enjoy wondering about abstract concepts and ideas to the point where they become real scenarios in my head. The idea for writing this came shortly after I've finished readings Orson Scott Card's Chil... |
19 January 2012
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Scientists say that one way of ensuring our species will survive whatever the Universe may throw against it is to spread amongst the stars. This may be achievable through suspended animation, or perhaps by sending spacecraft carrying our DNA to other planets.
This is a very interesting perspective on space explorat... |
5 January 2012
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Scientists carrying out digs inside an Australian cave were able to discover a series of bones belonging to tuna and sharks, which were taken into this shelter by human hands. The finding indicates that the practice of fishing is at least 42,000 years old.
Archaeologists are convinced that the bones did not get to ... |
25 November 2011
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Warner Bros., as the publisher, and Snowblind Studios, as the developer, have released a new video for their mix between action and role playing Lord of the Rings: War in the North, showing off the combat prowess of the human characters.The trailer is filled with actual in game footage of combat and makes a strong ca... |
20 October 2011
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A new study conducted by investigators at the University of Arizona, in the United States, demonstrates that modern and “archaic” humans interbred in Africa between 60,000 and 20,000 years ago. The behavior led to the transfer of small amounts of “old” genetic material into modern-day humans. ... |
7 September 2011
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A team of astronomers has just proposed a new explanation for the Fermi Paradox, which is the contradiction between the hypothesized number of alien worlds that may exist in the Universe and the lack of evidence we detect to support this estimate. Experts now believe they know why this happens. Basic calculations sho... |
19 April 2011
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Researchers have been trying to figure out why chimpanzees and bonobos behave so differently from each other for many years. In a recent study, investigators looked at the anatomical differences that exist between the brains of the two related primate species. Though they resemble each other a lot, the two brains als... |
6 April 2011
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In the first multi-species comparison study of aging patterns in primates, researchers discovered that humans, chimpanzees gorillas and a bunch of other primates grow old in pretty much the same, graceful way. In a research paper describing the findings – published in the March 11 issue of the top journal Scie... |
11 March 2011
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The general feel among space analysts is that upcoming missions to other moons, planets and stars will be carried out by robots, or by cyborgs, but not likely by humans. It's only fitting that things should be set up like this too, they add. According to studies, the number of advantages that robotic space explo... |
3 February 2011
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For centuries, religious zealots and philosophers have sought to define what it means to be a human, and what our defining characteristics are. Answers to this question have succeed themselves over the ages, but now we may be forced to ask the same thing and answer it from a different perspective. Given our modern so... |
30 December 2010
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It appears that little girls are not the only ones that play with dolls, since scientists at Harvard University and Bates College noticed that young female chimpanzees treat sticks like they were dolls and carry them around until they have offspring of their own.Another interesting thing is that this kind of behavior... |
21 December 2010
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A new study conducted by Thalia Wheatley and graduate student Christine Looser of Dartmouth College, wanted to find out what element on a face, tells people if that face is alive or not.The face of a doll can look like that of a human but it will never be alive, and telling this difference allows people to pay attent... |
21 December 2010
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Scientists always wondered why humans are more susceptible to certain infectious diseases, than their primate cousins, and now a new study conducted by the University of Chicago, concluded that the explanation lies in the species-specific changes in immune signaling pathways.The researchers carried out the first geno... |
17 December 2010
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UC Davis researchers discovered a circadian clock gene in plants that also works in human cells, controlling part of the mechanism.Even more interesting, the human gene also works in plant cells.Along with UC Davis postdoctoral scholar Matthew Jones, colleagues at Rice University in Houston and the Salk Institute for... |
2 December 2010
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A new statistical model suggests that the evolutionary break-up between humans and chimpanzees occurred 8 million years ago, 3 million years earlier than what was previously thought.For decades, paleontologists agreed that humans evolved some 5 or 6 million years ago, and their estimations relied on fossils.The only ... |
5 November 2010
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Professor Kim Bard, a comparative developmental psychologist from the University of Portsmouth’s Department of Psychology, received a three-year £135,000 Leverhulme Trust grant, which will allow her to examine cross-group variations in great apes' and human abilities and development.Bard says that al... |
6 October 2010
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According to investigators, humans will most definitely live in a future that will look different than today's world does, especially in terms of biodiversity.Researchers say that, most likely, our children and their children will live in a world that will contain a lot less animal species. Experts explain that ... |
3 September 2010
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The human heart is a mystery from many points of view. It produces a complex electrical field all on its own, and is the only muscle in the body that never takes a break from its chores. It comprises an intricate web of various types of cells, which all work together to keep the heart beating. Scientists have for man... |
30 July 2010
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The Neanderthals were a species of hominids that walked the surface of our planet between about 130,000 to approximately 30,000 years ago. At that time, they went extinct, or at least so researchers thought. But a new study suggests that at least some of them may have actually been absorbed in the modern human popula... |
30 April 2010
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For many years, experts looking at the possible effects that the last Ice Age may have had on indigenous populations in North America said that the events triggered major repercussions. The experts believed that the Younger Dryas period specifically was the most harmful. In geological terms, this is a period of a few... |
12 April 2010
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The landscape surrounding the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, may have been home to a previously-unknown species of hominids, two new studies show. While conducting archaeological investigations inside the area known as the Cradle of Humankind, researchers stumbled upon a new site, called Malapa, which revealed t... |
8 April 2010
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Not two years ago, as they were digging around in a Siberian cave, researchers from the Russian Federation came across a bone fragment that appeared to belong to a human. Assuming that the remain was from a Neanderthalian ancestor, the team put the bone shard away for storage. They had every reason to do so. The area... |
25 March 2010
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In a new scientific study, researchers have learned that farm fowls best humans when it comes to their perception of color. The investigation revealed that, regardless of the actual size of their brains, the animals can perceive a wider and more accurate range of colors than the human eye ever could. The researchers ... |
17 February 2010
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Bonobos are very peculiar animals. In addition to their bizarre mating rituals, they also tend to share things. But that would in itself be nothing of significant importance, had researchers not discovered that there is basically nothing you can do to stop the primates from doing so. While human kindergarten teachers... |
2 February 2010
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Undoubtedly, the most important stage in our evolution took place when we learned to use our hands to create tools. These innovations would go on to become the hallmark of our species, as most of the things we do, or are capable of, today are in some way or another connected to tools. But a team of anthropologists ar... |
18 January 2010
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Some of the most fundamental aspects of primate evolution are closely related to the timing of molar development and eruption, two scientists report in a new paper. Regardless of the species, from the largest to the smallest, all primates exhibit this correlation. The same thing holds true in humans as well, the team... |
29 December 2009
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Homo floresiensis is only represented in the fossil record through a few fossilized remains, but they are enough to earn the small creature the rank of human species. A new study has recently concluded that the creature, which was jokingly dubbed the “hobbit,” was an actual human species, and not just a d... |
19 November 2009
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In a recent set of studies, investigators have finally found one of the most important genes in our bodies, the one that determines our ability to formulate and understand speech. The gene, called FOXP2, can be found in all humans, but lacks in chimpanzees, other primates and big apes. It is a transcription factor, w... |
12 November 2009
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According to current knowledge, our ancestors first appeared in eastern Africa, where the oldest, human-like fossils were found. They are believed to have then left the continent in successive migrations, eventually spreading across the planet and beginning their domination of the world. However, historians and paleo... |
10 November 2009
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A newly discovered hominid fossil, found in Ethiopia, Africa, demonstrates that humans did not evolve from knuckle-walking chimpanzees, as anthropologists widely believe. Apparently, our species evolved along a separate lineage from a common ancestor that we shared with a species of great apes that has long since bee... |
2 October 2009
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Over recent years, considerable advancements in the field of robotics have brought forth a new wave of development in what some experts call “Humans 2.0.” Paraphrasing the type of Web content that is now a part of mainstream culture, they believe that, in a few years to a couple of decades, we could have ... |
3 August 2009
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Scientists from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), and the University of Aberdeen, in the United Kingdom, have recently published a new study, arguing that human language and dolphin behavior have similar traits, as far as brevity goes. They set off in their line of reasoning from the law of brevity in hu... |
31 July 2009
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Chimpanzees have over the years been associated and compared with humans both in terms of appearance and mental prowess, but a growing sentiment among academics has it that the primates will never be able to actually invent things. This trait, which involves high abstractionism skills and planning ahead, seems to be ... |
22 July 2009
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Talk about world domination! We, humans, live under the impression that we are the most widespread and numerous species on the planet, when the reality couldn't be much further from this “truth,” as evidenced recently by a groundbreaking discovery. It would appear that the three mega colonies of Arge... |
1 July 2009
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New studies on whales' behavior have come to a rather surprising conclusion – these marine animals may be as intelligent as apes are, or maybe even more. Anthropologists believe that the whales developed intelligence millions of years before the last ancestor of primates and humans did. For this reason, so... |
26 June 2009
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The latest issue of the Journal of Biogeography holds one of the most interesting hypotheses of this year – namely the theory that humans are not as much related to chimpanzees as previously stated, but rather to orangutans. The new paper, written by scientists at the University of Pittsburgh and the Buffalo Mu... |
18 June 2009
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The original inhabitants of the Americas may have very well descended from a single ancestor, or from more, partisans of two anthropological theories say. The debate on the issue has been raging on in academic circles for many years, but now newly discovered human skulls, found in Argentina, may finally bring this he... |
4 June 2009
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Humans have been until recently the only known species that did not seek to maximize its daily energy intake from foods, but rather planned its diet over a longer time-frame. However, a new ecological study conducted in the Bolivian rainforest has proven that wild spider monkeys do the exact same thing, planning thei... |
20 May 2009
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A fossil discovered in Germany has the potential to change the way we look at our own evolutionary pattern, its discoverers say. The 47-million-year-old “missing link” is about 20 times older than any of the other preserved remains of our ancestors, and it's also 95 percent complete, which means that... |
20 May 2009
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A breakthrough study by psychologists at the University of Haifa has revealed that adversities suffered by mother rats have significant consequences on their offspring's behavior, later on in life. The researchers clarified that the adversity did not affect the pregnancy directly, but possibly through other unde... |
12 May 2009
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Psychologists and evolutionary biologists are currently engaged in endless debates on whether stories are a byproduct of humans' highly social behavior, or if the pieces of literature are what triggered this type of behavior in the first place. Small children listening to bedtime stories grow up identifying them... |
16 April 2009
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Anthropologists and archaeologists have been scouting early human dig sites around the world for clues as to when the change from the primate-like state to a biped humanoid happened. They know that, in the grand scheme of things, ancient humans gave up their ability to use all of their four limbs to climb trees, in f... |
14 April 2009
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The concept of “continuous evolution,” which more and more anthropologists are beginning to rally behind, states that the current stage of our species, Homo sapiens, will not remain the same in the distant future. That is to say, our genes will evolve in such a manner over the next centuries, that a new t... |
14 April 2009
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Experts know that the females of most species of mammals, including humans, stop producing eggs, known as oocytes, soon before birth, and that the number of eggs they are born with is the number they will have for the rest of their lives. Challenging this knowledge, researchers in China have recently announced that t... |
13 April 2009
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The world has been fascinated with the existence of little green (or gray) men ever since the idea of extraterrestrial life first caught the eyes and ears of the public. Fed by more or less real events, such as UFO sightings, abductions, and inexplicable phenomena such as crop circles, people's fantasies of alie... |
8 April 2009
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Some inventors are notoriously focused more on their robots than they are on those around them, including children and family. What it is about the mechanical creatures that has them so fascinated is easily understandable, seeing how the future of mankind is clear – a world filled with robots and cyborgs to do ... |
7 April 2009
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New scientific research pushes back the date of the first recorded human uses of horses more than 1,000 years. University of Exeter scientist Alan Outram and his team have found in Kazakhstan evidences that the native Botai culture had been using horses as beasts of burden and sources of milk and food for at least 5,... |
6 March 2009
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The human history is full of coincidences and fortunate events, which in the end have had the result of differentiating us from the rest of the species roaming the Earth with our ancestors some 4 million years ago, when a weird kind of primates descended from the trees and started behaving strange for that time. This... |
12 February 2009
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It's common knowledge that mammals, unlike for example reptiles, have warm blood and generate heat inside their bodies at all times. For many years, researchers in the field of evolution have been trying to decipher the mystery of this difference, and especially how warm-blooded creatures came to be in the first... |
5 February 2009
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A fifteen-year-old boy from Boston is the main driving force behind a new bill that proposes the banning of the medical practice known as “debarking,” which is just an euphemism for surgically removing a dog's or cat's vocal cords, for the ridiculous reason that they are a nuisance to people aro... |
4 February 2009
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