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Climate change seedbank stores crops' wild ancestors
2013-07-23 07:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: An international operation has been launched to save seeds from wild plants which scientists believe could be crucial in protecting crops from the potentially devastating impact of climate change. The seeds are from the wild ancestors of important crops - and it is hoped their DNA can be used by plant breeders to give farmers new more robust varieties to grow. The BBC's rural affairs correspondent Jeremy Cooke has visited Italy - one if dozens of countries taking part in the project - to find out...
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Features of southeast European human ancestors influenced by lack of episodic glaciations
2013-02-06 11:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Contact: ONE Press onepress@plos.org 41-562-412-17199 Public Library of Science Lack of geographical isolation may have led to unique physical features seen in southeastern European human ancestors, says study A fragment of human lower jaw recovered from a Serbian cave is the oldest human ancestor found in this part of Eur…
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What did our ancestors look like?
2013-01-13 11:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Contact: Hilary Glover hilary.glover@biomedcentral.com 44-020-319-22370 BioMed Central A new method of establishing hair and eye colour from modern forensic samples can also be used to identify details from ancient human remains, finds a new study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Investigative Geneti…