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• How the world’s first flowers evolved (Re-Issue)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Washington, January 4 (ANI): A new study led by Florida Museum of Natural History researchers is helping shed light on the evolution of the first flowers in the world.Charles Darwin described the sudden origin of flowering plants, which emerged about 130 million years ago, as an abominable mystery. “There was ...
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• The Mangani Holotypes, Entry I: Carl Linnaeus (Uppsala domkyrka)

  
  A Three-Pound Monkey Brain — Authority: 92
  I, Human Humans are an egotistic species. Ancient writers considered humans to be created in the image of the gods, destined to rule all other entities. We humans have not one, but two major fields of study devoted to ourselves and named accordingly ( anthropo logy and the human ities). Pick up a book at random and ...
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• How the world’s first flowers evolved

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Washington, January 2 (ANI): A new study led by Florida Museum of Natural History researchers is helping shed light on the evolution of the first flowers in the world.Charles Darwin described the sudden origin of flowering plants, which emerged about 130 million years ago, as an abominable mystery. “There was ...
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• Barcoding, taxonomy and citizen CSI

  
  The Tree of Life — Authority: 121
  I just love the continued coverage of the story of the students from Trinity School in New York (a high school) who do investigative DNA barcoding projects. (There is a good new story about this on the LA Times blogs at: Think that sheeps mik cheese comes from a sheep? DNA doesnt lie | Booster Shots | Los Angeles ...
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• New Bird Species of 2009

  
  Biological Ramblings — Authority: 99
  Welcome to the world! Were sorry we missed you for so many years. Synallaxis beverlyae , Rio Orinoco Spinetail (Hilty and Ascanio 2009) Prowling the mighty Rio Orinoco in Venezuela in 1998, Steven Hilty heard something strange singing from a small river island. Since Steven Hilty literally wrote the (excellent!) ...
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• Top 10 Birds of the Decade

  
  Search and Serendipity — Authority: 117
  Birds fascinate us. Beautiful, highly visible denizens of this planet, they tell us about the larger world, and they even reveal our own character and foibles as they go about their lives. And so, I think it’s only fitting that as we look back on the decade without a name, we do so by looking at birds. Here are my ...
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• New bird species described from Asia: Limestone Leaf Warbler

  
  Search and Serendipity — Authority: 117
  VICKSBURG, MISS. — A new species of Phylloscopus warbler — the Limestone Leaf Warbler ( Phylloscopus calciatilis ) — has been described from Southeast Asia: Description of a new species of Phylloscopus warbler from Vietnam and Laos (Alström et al. 2010) (hat tip John Boyd and Denis Lepage ). The ...
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