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You're Seeing More Redheads Than Ever And Evolution Is Why
Just a few years ago, there were concerns that minorities like blondes and redheads were going extinct. The future belonged to Miss Clairol because they're recessive genes and with just five generations of bad biological rolls, you could have less chance of Scottish hair than Senator Elizabeth Warren has of being Native American.
It may be that scientists just weren't seeing the signals.
Instead of going extinct, a study of 10,016 newer ancient West Eurasian genomes, plus 5,820 existing ancient sequences and 6,438 modern ones finds that red hair and fair skin have become more common over the last 10,000 years, not less. Evolution not only didn't slow down in that time, natural selection could those traits to speed up over the last 4,000 years.
It may be that scientists just weren't seeing the signals.
Instead of going extinct, a study of 10,016 newer ancient West Eurasian genomes, plus 5,820 existing ancient sequences and 6,438 modern ones finds that red hair and fair skin have become more common over the last 10,000 years, not less. Evolution not only didn't slow down in that time, natural selection could those traits to speed up over the last 4,000 years.
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Warm-bodied sharks and tunas face “double jeopardy” in warming seas – new research
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Scientists create living tissues capable of changing shape in a programmed manner
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Eating more ultra-processed foods linked with greater risk of being overweight or obese in adolescents
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Europeans are confused about fungi as food, with 2 in 3 survey respondents not knowing what mycoprotein is, and almost half thin...
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A fossil of a new carnivoran species effectively doubles the evolutionary history of the weasel family
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Lightweight framework boosts cross-domain microseismic signal classification for underground engineering
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Did The Humanities Ruin The Humanities And Take All Academia Down With Them?
At what point is enforced identification with what is obviously a collapsing system called out by people on the inside of once-powerful industries?
Steelworkers once believed there was no limit to what they could grab from corporations, even autoworkers made that error. Twinkies went bankrupt to get out of union control and start over. Yet no one on the floor believe that would happen.
Steelworkers once believed there was no limit to what they could grab from corporations, even autoworkers made that error. Twinkies went bankrupt to get out of union control and start over. Yet no one on the floor believe that would happen.
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Have A Master In Science, Want A Post-Doc Position Directly?
Do you have a master in Science, and want to start a Post-Doc position directly? You can have it, in Padova (Italy), to work with me on the PHINDER project, an EIC-funded Pathfinder grantee.
I am offering a two-year position for research in nanophotonics-powered neuromorphic computing for particle detector development at INFN, Sezione di Padova. The call will open soon, so you should watch this space if you are interested.
I am offering a two-year position for research in nanophotonics-powered neuromorphic computing for particle detector development at INFN, Sezione di Padova. The call will open soon, so you should watch this space if you are interested.
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Ground-Nesting Bee Populations Don't Get Publicity But They're Everywhere
Honeybees get attention in environmental fundraising campaigns because people don't understand pollination.(1)
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Rice researchers find sulfur-rich Mercury magmas behave differently than Earth’s
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