Why some young love aggressive dogs - Times of India
23 May 2012, 10:09 am
"A lot of human behaviour involves status display and dominance, and evolutionarily this helps with finding mates. Basic personality also influences a lot of our behaviour. By measuring both at the same time, we could see whether they each had ...

Human spine structure found in 345 million year old eel - Examiner
23 May 2012, 6:12 am
Sallan was initially searching for how Tarrasius problematicus fit evolutionarily among other early ray-finned fishes when she discovered two new paleontological firsts. Paleontology has subscribed to the idea that Tarrasius problematicus had a simpler ...

Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor Induces Autophagy via Reactive Oxygen Species Generation - Elites TV
22 May 2012, 7:35 pm
Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved catabolic process that maintains cellular homeostasis under stress conditions such as starvation and pathogen infection. Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is a multifunctional cytokine that plays ...

Disagreeable People Prefer Aggressive Dogs, Study Suggests - Science Daily
22 May 2012, 8:58 am
Professor Egan explained: "A lot of human behaviour involves status display and dominance, and evolutionarily this helps with finding mates. Basic personality also influences a lot of our behaviour. By measuring both at the same time, we could see whether ...

Personalized cures may be harder to develop than anticipated - SmartBrief
21 May 2012, 6:54 pm
Most human genetic variations are rare and evolutionarily recent, and widely shared variations probably do not affect many diseases, according to two studies published in the journal Science. "The task of correlating individual variants with particular ...

Rare Gene Variants Making Drug Discovery Difficult, Studies Find - nola.com
18 May 2012, 9:17 am
The data, released Thursday in the journal Science, shows that the vast majority of genetic variations found in people are rare and evolutionarily recent. Well-known DNA variations that are common across large populations probably don't widely affect many ...

Rare DNA Mutations Raise Question Theories of Disease - Bloomberg
18 May 2012, 7:16 am
The data, released yesterday in the journal Science, shows that the vast majority of genetic variations found in people are rare and evolutionarily recent. Well-known DNA variations that are common across large populations probably don’t ...

Man escapes Alaska bear attack without serious injury - Alaska Dispatch
14 May 2012, 2:44 pm
He didn't see any other bears." Grizzly bear survival strategy for encounters with humans or other bears has been evolutionarily hardwired into two simple choices: fight or flee. Most bears flee, but it is not uncommon for one to make the opposite choice.

Humanity's Best Friend: How Dogs May Have Helped Humans Beat the Neanderthals - Atlantic Online
14 May 2012, 2:08 pm
With early humans hunting in groups, "cooperative eyes" may have allowed them to "talk" with each other, silently and therefore effectively: windows to the soul that are also evolutionarily advantageous. And that, in turn, might have led to a more ...

The village can help, but children raised by a mum and dad do best - Daily Telegraph
12 May 2012, 12:23 pm
A lack of desire to reproduce I always imagined to be a psychological correlate of same-sex attraction. It seems evolutionarily obvious, though untestable, why we gay people exist. Raising children well is the most difficult, and important, human activity.