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Ancestors Honored at Portland's Juneteenth Festival
2019-06-24 20:40:23| PortlandOnline
Zane Sparling in the Portland Tribune, June 15, 2019
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Dinosaur evolution: Lumbering giants had agile ancestors
2017-09-20 06:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] The best known sauropod dinosaurs were huge herbivorous creatures, whose brain structures were markedly different from those of their evolutionary predecessors, for the earliest representatives of the group were small, lithe carnivores. The sauropod group of dinosaurs included the largest animals that have ever walked the Earth - up to 40 meters long and weighing as much as 90 tons. Evolutionarily speaking, they were obviously very successful, giving rise to a diverse and wid…
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A short jump from single-celled ancestors to animals
2016-10-13 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] The first animals evolved from their single-celled ancestors around 800 million years ago, but new evidence suggests that this leap to multi-celled organisms in the tree of life may not have been quite as dramatic as scientists once assumed. In a Developmental Cell paper publishing October 13, researchers demonstrate that the single-celled ancestor of animals likely already had some of the mechanisms that animal cells use today to develop into different tissue types. …
Dawn of the robotic butler: R2D2s ancestors already walk (or roll) among us
2016-06-20 17:30:21| Extremetech
Browsing the latest developments in machine learning, power electronics, and sensor, we can catch a glimpse of the kind of robotic butler that will be serving us breakfast in the decades to come.
Bigger brains led to bigger bodies in our ancestors
2016-04-18 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] IMAGE:Â New research shows that a strong selection to increase brain size alone played a large role in both brain- and body-size increases throughout human evolution. This phenomenon also may have… <a href=”http://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/1134…
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