Cambridge in the sun – just love this place!
What an amazing dog shot! Happy Wednesday! Enjoy Portland-based photographer Car…
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Happy Wednesday! Enjoy Portland-based photographer Carli Davidson's hilarious freeze-frame shot of a dog mid-shake:
Skulls of early Homo erectus from the site of Dmanisi, Georgia, are all quite different
"Together with the fossilized bones of four additional individuals discovered in close proximity, the skulls indicates that populations of early Homo comprised a wider range of morphological variation than traditionally assumed, which implies a single evolving lineage with continuity across continents. "
So who knows, maybe H rudolfensis, H gautengensis, H ergaster and possibly H habilis are all H erectus! If true this would be a game changer as it could indicate that our predecessors at a specific time and place are way less similar to each other than was expected until now.
Read both papers in Science:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6156/297.short
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6156/326.short
#science #paper #homosapiens #evolution #homoerectus #Dmanisi #palaeontology
The people of America voted, good luck with that congress!
Fifteen per cent of those surveyed “strongly agreed” with the statement, “Being torn limb from limb by a grizzly bear or devoured by a pack of rabid hyenas is too good for these people. They should be eaten, very slowly, by a colony of hungry fire ants. Yes, that’s it—fire ants. That would be amazing.”.
Read the whole thing in the +The New Yorker:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/10/poll-americans-divided-over-what-wild-animal-they-would-like-to-see-congress-mauled-by.html
Americans gave grizzly bears the highest job-approval rating, followed by polar bears, and by brown bears in a distant third.
Nifty video about +Research at Google and +NASA working on Quantum Physics using their first quantum computer!
We do it because we must. We do it because that is what it means to be human.