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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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evolution stories: 85 news summaries

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Early Immunity to Chimp Virus Leaves Humans Open to HIV

An advantage 4M years ago is a weakness now

Jun 22, 07 10:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Humans are more susceptible to HIV than other primates because our ancestors evolved a protein that could fight off a different retrovirus that infected chimps, says Scientific American. The most conspicuous difference between the chimpanzee genome sequenced in 2005 and the human one, says a Seattle virologist, was 130 copies... More »

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evolution • health • AIDS • genetics • disease • HIV • DNA • chimpanzees • genome

Big Bird Dazzles Paleontologists

Fossil unearthed in Gobi desert reveals record of 26-foot-long 'gigantic chicken'

Jun 14, 07 2:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - The largest birdlike creature on record stood over 16 feet tall, weighed a ton and a half, and had sharp claws but no teeth. The Chinese paleontologist who unearthed the creature's thigh bone wasn't sure what it was, he tells the San Francisco Chronicle, but as he listed the... More »

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evolution • science • birds • discoveries • paleontology • Gobi desert • dinosaur • Nature

Creationists Open History Museum

On the sixth day, God created dinosaurs,
says curator

May 24, 07 5:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - A $27 million museum opening in Kentucky next week promises a different kind of take on natural history: a biblical one. At the Creation Museum, the Earth is 6,000 years old, evolution is a yarn, and dinosaurs were booked on Noah's Ark. More »

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evolution • religion • creationism • Kentucky • natural history • museum

(Newser) - Genetically modified mosquitoes that cannot pass on malaria may help reduce the spread of the disease that now causes a million deaths a year, mostly children. A new study shows that the lab-designed bugs could out-breed their natural competition, eventually driving them out altogether and eliminating the route through which... More »

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evolution • parasites • health • disease • malaria • tropical diseases • genetic modification • research • mosquito

Fossil Proves
We're All African

Moroccan find sets human origins
back 100,000 years

Mar 14, 07 7:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - An ancient jawbone found in Morocco suggests that modern human ancestry emerged 100,000 years earlier than previously believed—and in Africa, rather than Europe. Until now, scientists believed that modern humans didn't emerge until 20,000 to 30,000 years ago. But the Moroccan bone is 160,000 years... More »

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Africa • evolution • Morocco • origins of humanity • fossil • jawbone • modern man • homo sapien

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