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• New The Outdoorsman Is Excellent

  
  Wildlife and People — Authority: 117
  The previous two posts were extracted (with generous permission) from articles appearing in the new issue of The Outdoorsman , No. 35, July-Nov 2009 [ here ]. The Outdoorsman is written and edited by Mr. George Dovel [ here ]. The new issue is excellent, as usual. Looking back, we have posted excerpts from six? ...
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  Bildungblog — Authority: 450
  Allegories for Our Time #12 Homo Sapiens : a Tower Poised Over an Abyss
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• What is Conservation? Who are conservationists?

  
  Wildlife and People — Authority: 117
  By Hunter’s Alert [ here ] There are many words that have double meanings, like “gay”, “coke” and “conservation”. Most people would argue that conservation only has one meaning. Through language deception perfected by government agencies and environmentalists (which has been so skillfully brought to our ...
  6 days ago

• Old Europe Advanced Earlier than other Known Civilizations

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 131
  Before the glory that was Greece and Rome, even before the first cities of Mesopotamia or temples along the Nile, there lived in the Lower Danube Valley and the Balkan foothills people who were ahead of their time in art, technology and long-distance trade.More Articles
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• Don’t Feed The Caveman

  
  Popular Fidelity — Authority: 487
  There’s an unusual new exhibit in a Warsaw, Poland zoo.  However, it’s only going to be on display until Sunday, so if you want your kids to see this rare creature, you’d better hurry.  The prehistoric beast on display?  Why, it’s the humble Homo sapiens, or human being.  That’s right, there’s a zoo ...
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• 45 SNP universal genetic identification

  
  Dienekes' Anthropology Blog — Authority: 126
  Forensic geneticists currently use the highly polymorphic CODIS microsatellite markers for DNA sample identification. This paper shows that a unique DNA id for a human can be achieved by a panel of 45 SNPs. Human Genetics doi:10.1007/s00439-009-0771-1 SNPs for a universal individual identification panel Andrew ...
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• Caged cavemen go on display at zoo

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 167
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Visitors to Warsaw’s zoo are being greeted by two “Homo sapiens” peering out from a cage — humans in animal skins trying to spark interest in man’s caveman ancestors.
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• Why, When and How to give Kid Allowance?

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 571
  Do you supplement allowances with spending money? Spending money is the cash you give your children to spend on a particular thing or event. You shell out $15 for the ticket and popcorn. If you supply spending money, then maybe allowances shouldn’t be so generous. Of course, you are looking after entertainment costs ...
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• oh when the saints (oh when the saints) go marching in (go marching in)

  
  "ain't" ain't a problem — Authority: 109
  On early Monday afternoon I was late for Italian. I got a sandwich. I sat down to eat it and heard the U marching band outside, so I checked it out. Pep rally! Whatever. So I got a hot dog and a coke and some chips and decided to be about an hour late to my two-hour-long class. She let them out an hour early, so ...
  2 weeks ago

• Charles Darwin’s New Origins Spark Historic Controversy

  
  History Blog — Authority: 120
  Few books have played such a large role in history as Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, except perhaps the Bible and the Koran. Published on November 24, 1859, Darwin’s book discussed such new ideas as natural selection, the survival of the fittest and of course, the natural evolutionary progression of ...
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• Genetic Variation and Recent Positive Selection with 1 million SNPs

  
  Dienekes' Anthropology Blog — Authority: 126
  On the left Figure S4 shows PCA and frappe analysis for Eurasia. From the paper: When just the Central/South Asia, Middle East, North Africa, and European groups are analyzed, PC1 (Fig. S4A) distinguishes the Mozabite (North Africa), Middle East, and Europe groups from the Central/South Asian groups, while PC2 ...
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• Endangered Species Vs Cultural Tradition

  
  Colleen Anderson — Authority: 419
  Our world is in trouble in a lot of ways and anyone, whether an individual or a government, who denies this is practicing the head in the sand technique. Overfishing has caused the closing of fisheries in numerous countries, caribou herds are threatened, whales are on the endangered list , rhinos and tigers and other ...
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• A Brief Prehistory Lesson

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 533
  A Brief PreHistory Lesson by Lew Sethics Wolf  calls a meeting with Man: “Look” he says, “you need us: you can’t hunt for shit, you got no claws, your teeth are useless in a fight, you can’t outrun anything, your sense of smell is a joke, your women and children slow you down. We’ll make a deal: ...
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• Y chromosome diversity, human expansion, drift, and cultural evolution (Chiaroni et al. 2009)

  
  Dienekes' Anthropology Blog — Authority: 126
  The supplementary material has some very interesting maps of the distribution of all major Y-chromosome haplogroups, and lists the geographical centroids with the standard deviations of all haplogroups. For example, the centroid of haplogroup J is in the Mediterranean sea between Greece, Cyprus, and Turkey, while ...
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• He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Bro?

  
  A Feather Adrift — Authority: 422
  The next time you call your husband a Neanderthal, you might be accurate. Actually not. Just kidding. Genetic testing tends to suggest that in the human genome there is little if any trace of the Neanderthal in us. But that doesn’t negate that he was a close relative albeit now extinct. Let me explain. Nova has ...
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• Legendary human-hungry Tsavo lions: not that hungry

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 579
  Their reputation of being man-eating ferocious animals precedes them most of the time, making them tourist-drawing museum pieces. However, the famed Kenyan duo of man-eating lions may not really be that human-hungry. The infamous Tsavo lions credited with 135 kills ate just 35 humans, making them not as ravenous as ...
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• Nature’s ‘Deselection’ Engine Revving Up!

  
  Fire Earth — Authority: 430
  submitted by a blog contributorThought for the Day:You may be undergoing natural ‘deselection’ processes at such phenomenal rates you cannot imagine!Are you insane?Following the wrong road map?Your systems too inflexible? Organizations burdensome?Your methods unsustainable? Do your schemes fly in the face of ...
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• Humans, as predators, have duty to control coyotes

  
  Wildlife and People — Authority: 117
  By Dick Dekker, PhD, Edmonton wildlife ecologist, The Edmonton Journal, November 9, 2009 [ here ] “Coyotes Kill Young Singer Hiking on Nova Scotia Trail” was a headline in The Edmonton Journal of October 29. This shocking news story was followed by an almost equally shocking headline, but then in a very ...
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• Discovering Our True Diversity

  
  The Woo Woo Teacup Journal — Authority: 127
  I’ve made a decision. I’m no longer going to fill out the race/ethnicity/culture question on surveys anymore. You know, the question that asks you to indicate whether you are White or Caucasian or Hispanic or Latino or African-American or Asian American or Pacific Islander or Native American or whatever other ...
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• soapbox

  
  "ain't" ain't a problem — Authority: 109
  Im going to get on my soapbox about a word I cant stand. Its the word "soapbox". More specifically, its the circumstances under which the word is used - and thus, the connotation it has - that I cant stand. So far as Ive observed, the word is nearly always employed when someone knows the advice he/she is offering is ...
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