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The Minoans were Caucasian: DNA debunks longstanding theory that Europe’s first advanced culture was from Africa

British archaeologists who in 1900 discovered the Minoan culture believed they were from Libya or Egypt The Minoan civilisation arose on Crete in the 27th century BC and flourished until the 15th century BC By Damien Gayle PUBLISHED: 21:13 GMT, 16 May 2013 | UPDATED: 08:49 GMT, 17 May 2013 DNA analysis has debunked the longstanding theory that the Minoans, who some 5,000 years ago established Europe’s first advanced Bronze Age culture, were from Africa. The Minoan civilisation arose on the Mediterranean island of Crete in approximately the 27th century BC and flourished for 12 centuries until the 15th century [...]

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Posted by admin - May 20, 2013 at 4:04 am

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How are humans going to become extinct?

What are the greatest global threats to humanity? Are we on the verge of our own unexpected extinction? An international team of scientists, mathematicians and philosophers at Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute is investigating the biggest dangers. And they argue in a research paper, Existential Risk as a Global Priority, that international policymakers must pay serious attention to the reality of species-obliterating risks. Last year there were more academic papers published on snowboarding than human extinction. The Swedish-born director of the institute, Nick Bostrom, says the stakes couldn’t be higher. If we get it wrong, this could be humanity’s [...]

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Posted by admin - May 20, 2013 at 12:00 am

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Mysterious Minoans Were European, DNA Finds

The Minoans, the builders of Europe’s first advanced civilization, really were European, new research suggests. The conclusion, published today (May 14) in the journal Nature Communications, was drawn by comparing DNA from 4,000-year-old Minoan skeletons with genetic material from people living throughout Europe and Africa in the past and today. “We now know that the founders of the first advanced European civilization were European,” said study co-author George Stamatoyannopoulos, a human geneticist at the University of Washington. “They were very similar to Neolithic Europeans and very similar to present day-Cretans,” residents of the Mediterranean island of Crete. While that [...]

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Posted by admin - May 15, 2013 at 3:59 pm

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Why Cities are The Future Of Human Evolution

Cities Are the Future of Human Evolution Humans began to live in urban settlements about 7 thousand years ago. As humans continued to evolve over the millennia, so too did our cities. Now, our cities are about to change again — and they’re going to look more like ancient Machu Picchu than the gleaming towers of glass and steel we have today. Illlustration by Olga Idealist on Deviant Art As any urban dweller can tell you, the one thing that’s constant in city life is change. Buildings rise up and are torn down; parks bloom out of old train tracks; [...]

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Posted by admin - May 8, 2013 at 3:49 am

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Listen To Alexander Graham Bell’s Voice Identified on 1885 Recording the first time his voice has ever been heard.

We might grumble about the clarity of our cell phone calls (“Can you hear me now?!”), but the technology has come a long way since 1885, when Alexander Graham Bell was tinkering with sound recordings in his Washington, D.C. lab. SOURCE

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Posted by admin - April 29, 2013 at 4:05 am

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Early human ancestors were ‘aquatic apes’: Living in water helped us evolve big brains and walk upright, scientists say

Supporters of the aquatic ape theory include Sir David Attenborough It says apes emerged from water, lost their fur, and started to walk upright Theory will be revisited at London conference next week By Amanda Williams PUBLISHED: 17:23 GMT, 28 April 2013 | UPDATED: 17:23 GMT, 28 April 2013 A controversial theory that humans evolved from amphibious apes has won new support. The aquatic ape theory, whose supporters include David Attenborough, suggests that apes emerged from the water, lost their fur, started to walk upright and then developed big brains. While it has been treated with scorn by some scientists [...]

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Posted by admin - April 29, 2013 at 2:31 am

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DNA and cloned extinct animals are on their way

Woolly mammoths stomp through the Siberian tundra as the giant moa strides the forest floor of New Zealand and Tasmania’s dog-like ”tigers” stalk their prey under the cover of night. This is not a snapshot of times past, nor an addition to Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park movies. Instead, it’s a scenario that some biogeneticists see as plausible in our own lifetimes: the resurrection of species driven to extinction, sometimes thousands of years ago. A museum display of the Giant Moa. Next Thursday will be 60 years since Francis Crick and James Watson published their paper unveiling the structure of DNA, [...]

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Posted by admin - April 29, 2013 at 12:25 am

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Lloyd Pye – Everything You Know Is Wrong

Everything You Know Is Wrong (EYKIW) is the product of years of research into human origins, spanning everything from the oldest known recorded histories of the world to modern genetic discoveries. In it, Lloyd Pye postulates his alternative view of human evolution, now called “Intervention Theory.”

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Posted by admin - April 28, 2013 at 3:43 am

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A Decade of the Human Genome (Documentary)

A decade ago, scientists announced that they had produced the first draft of the human genome, the 3.6 billion letters of our genetic code. It was seen as one of the greatest scientific achievements of our age, a breakthrough that would usher in a new age of medicine. A decade later, Horizon finds out how close we are to developing the life-changing treatments that were hoped for. Horizon follows three people, each with a genetic disease, as they go behind the scenes at some of Britain’s leading research labs to find out what the sequencing of the human genome has [...]

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Posted by admin - April 25, 2013 at 4:41 am

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Code For Life: The Human Genome

The Cassiopeia Project is an effort to make high quality science videos available to everyone. If you can visualize it, then understanding is not far behind. Code for Life: Beginning more than three and a half billion years ago, a tiny, primitive molecule encoded instructions deep within itself. Then it passed these instructions on to its children, who passed it to their children and so on – all the way down through time to all living things today. The human genome, written in a code of just four letters, tells us who we really are – and that generates many [...]

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Posted by admin - April 25, 2013 at 4:30 am

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Further Reading
- Ancient Europeans mysteriously vanished 4,500 years ago
  Published April 23, 2013 LiveScience The genetic lineage of Europe mysteriously transformed about 4,500 years ago, new...
  
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  ‘Living fossil’ coelacanth genome sequenced
  The genetic secrets of a "living fossil" have been revealed by scientists. Researchers sequenced the genome...
  
  Human Evolution: Why Should You Care?
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  Scientists make ‘laboratory-grown’ kidney
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