Genomics study provides insight into the evolution of unique human traits Today, researchers from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, along with...
Mystery Of Mammalian Ears Solved http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070727172839.htm A 30-year scientific debate over how specialized cells in the...
... Thank Marc - I came across his paper for the first time,when reading a news report on the recent discovery of 1 million year old footprints found in the...
Thanks m3d, I note the gasp effect. While wading into cold water, I get a strong gasp and hyperventilation reflex. Does submerging only the face in cold water...
I cannot find info on the Internet, but on croatian tv they said that, to trapped china miners they were delivering milk and salt water, so that this prevents...
Mario, I think the milk drinking lactase gene is recent, only less than 20,000 years old. Did you check that? Cheese has saturated fats, some processed cheese...
Discovery Provides Key Evidence Of Life's Beginnings http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070727184902.htm Researchers from Saint Louis University...
Genomics Study Provides Insight Into The Evolution Of Unique Human Traits http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070730173507.htm Researchers from the...
... Yes, I heard that (about the lactase gene). Just recently I've read an article about one gene (I forgot which one). It is one of the most known genes, and...
Rethinking incisor size and diet in anthropoids: Diet, incisor wear and incisor breadth in the African apes MA McCollum 2007 AJPA DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20606 In a...
You will need more weight for shallow diving than deep diving. This is because as you go deeper, the air in your lungs and in your wetsuit compresses, so you...
... They certainly did not go for a swim, in the brass monkey waters of the North sea or the north Atlantic. More likely they went swimming in Javanese waters....
... The gasp is involuntary, an apparently more related to full immersion in cold water. Wouldn't think our early ancestors went for swim in water that was...
... Wouldn't think so, possibly the drier African climate favors fossilization, but then again a number of the fossils found were of those that died when the...
I can't agree or disagree, I dunno. I'll do some searching, try to find out effect on breathing of immersion (vs submersion) in cold water. Note they used the...
... m3d, note the word immersion, not submersion. Shallow or deep diving = submersion, neck deep wading = full immersion Did they mean submersion? I would...
... keeps the ... relying more ... position and ... cooler ... Would say immersion, not submersion as they were still at the surface. Usually submersion means...
... water, I ... only ... fits with ... in a ... to a ... diving face ... My def. comes from Seb Murat. In addition, immersion is treading water. ... But...
... Or wading or floating? ... A possible sequence is: clinging/wading + removing oysters from mangrove trees as caupichs do; then dipping to collect...
... Yes, also possible. ... Yes: Homo: Dmanisi Georgia = between 2 mountain ranges of Kaukasus (2 Ma, Caspian & Black Seas were probably still connected);...
I just realized, true yawning is often accompanied by arms stretching upwards (linear with body) (sea otters do this as well sometimes), while the pre-sneeze...