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Platypus helps understand evolution

Posted on October 21, 2011 by CNP Webmaster

Platypus sheds light on evolutionary theory Anna Scrivenger | Thursday, October 20th, 2011 at 10:06 am Missing link between birds and mammals: the platypus of eastern Australia Arguably Australia’s weirdest animal, the platypus, is at the centre of a new … Continue reading →

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Genome similarities

Posted on July 7, 2011 by CNP Webmaster

Discovering The Bigger Picture In Chromosomes Released: 7/6/2011 10:15 AM EDT Source: Kansas State University Research Team Finds Similarities In Genomes Across Multiple Species; Platypus Still Out Of Place Newswise — MANHATTAN, Kan. — By mapping various genomes onto an … Continue reading →

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Creationists also have rights

Posted on March 23, 2011 by CNP Webmaster

Texas: Dont discriminate against creationists! http://theweek.com/article/index/213346/texas-dont-discriminate-against-creationists?sms_ss=printfriendly&at_xt=4d89d1a785735fac%252C0 March 23, 2011 Health and Science posted on March 21, 2011, at 10:43 AM The hood of a car advertises its owner’s creationist beliefs: If a new bill passes in Texas, universities would be … Continue reading →

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Bigger is better

Posted on March 9, 2011 by CNP Webmaster

Evolution Drives Many Plants and Animals to Be Bigger, Faster  Researchers working at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center compiled and reviewed nearly 150 published estimates of natural selection, representing more than 100 species of birds, lizards, snakes, insects and plants. … Continue reading →

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Junk DNA has important function

Posted on March 2, 2011 by CNP Webmaster

Function of ‘Junk DNA’ in Human Genes ScienceDaily (Feb. 28, 2011) — Part of the answer to how and why primates differ from other mammals, and humans differ from other primates, may lie in the repetitive stretches of the genome … Continue reading →

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Tree of life is a mosaic

Posted on February 6, 2011 by CNP Webmaster

Discovery of Jumping Gene Cluster Tangles Tree of Life   These are Vanderbilt evolutionary biologists Antonis Rokas, right, and Jason Slot. (Credit: John Russell, Vanderbilt University) ScienceDaily (Feb. 5, 2011) — Since the days of Darwin, the "tree of life" … Continue reading →

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Brain complexity revealed

Posted on November 17, 2010 by CNP Webmaster

Stunning Details of Brain Connections Revealed A single human brain has more switches than all the computers and routers and Internet connections on Earth Visual reconstruction (from array-tomography data) of synapses in the mouse somatosensory cortex, which is responsive to … Continue reading →

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Aphids detect goat breath

Posted on August 9, 2010 by CNP Webmaster

Insects sense danger on mammals’ breath August 9th, 2010 in Biology / Plants & Animals When plant-eating mammals such as goats chomp on a sprig of alfalfa, they could easily gobble up some extra protein in the form of insects … Continue reading →

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