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Warm-Blooded Animals Lost Ability to Heal the Heart

vendredi 8 mars 2019 par Christopher Intagliata — Health, Medicine, The Sciences, Biology, Evolution
Thyroid hormone, which helps warm-blooded animals regulate body temperature, also appears to put a halt on heart regeneration. Christopher Intagliata reports. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The Other Tool Users

vendredi 1er mars 2019 par Michael Haslam — Features, The Sciences, Biology, Evolution
Excavations of stone tools left behind by nonhuman primates are illuminating the origins of technological innovation -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Susceptibility to Mental Illness May Have Helped Humans Adapt over the Millennia

vendredi 1er mars 2019 par Dana G. Smith — Features, Mind, Behavior & Society, Mental Health, The Sciences, Evolution
Psychiatrist Randolph Nesse, one of the founders of evolutionary medicine, explains why natural selection did not rid our species of onerous psychiatric disorders -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The First Time I Saw the Grand Canyon

mardi 26 février 2019 par Andrew de Wet — The Sciences, Evolution
On the national park's 100th anniversary, a South African–born geologist recalls his first encounter with a spectacular natural wonder -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Did Crawling Critters Leave These Cracks? The Answer Could Rewrite Evolutionary History

mardi 26 février 2019 par Jim Daley — The Sciences, Evolution
Researchers say they found evidence life began moving 2.1 billion years ago, but that contentious conclusion is far from certain -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Grandma's Influence Is Good for Grandkids

lundi 25 février 2019 par Karen Hopkin — Health, Public Health, The Sciences, Biology, Evolution
Grandmothers can enhance the survival of grandchildren. That is, unless grandma’s too old or lives too far away. Karen Hopkin reports. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Fossil Bones Reveal New Baby Dinosaur

samedi 23 février 2019 par Brian Switek — The Sciences, Evolution
The partial skull and additional bones represent a dinosaur species never found before -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The Real Dino Killer: A One–Two Punch

jeudi 21 février 2019 par Howard Lee — EARTH, The Sciences, Evolution
An asteroid impact and volcanoes acting together could have done in the beasts, new rock dates indicate -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Light-Skin Variant Arose in Asia Independent of Europe

mardi 19 février 2019 par Christopher Intagliata — The Sciences, Evolution
A new genetic study of Latin Americans provides evidence that gene variants for lighter skin color came about in Asia as well as in Europe. Christopher Intagliata reports. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Spectacular Fossil Bird Foot Preserved in Amber

samedi 16 février 2019 par Brian Switek — The Sciences, Evolution
A rare amber inclusion underscores the importance of carnivores to the fossil record -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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