<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Researchers: Human Evolution Speeding Up : RSS 2.0</title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><webMaster>plime.com</webMaster><copyright>2008, plime.com.</copyright><lastBuildDate></lastBuildDate><pubDate></pubDate><generator>Plime/1</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><image><title>Researchers: Human Evolution Speeding Up : RSS 2.0</title><url>http://www.plime.com/images/logo.gif</url><link>http://www.plime.com/science/</link></image><item><title><![CDATA[Researchers: Human Evolution Speeding Up]]></title><description><![CDATA[Science fiction writers have suggested a future Earth populated by a blend of all races into a common human form. In real life, the reverse seems to be happening.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/43791/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/43791/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists Find A Fingerprint Of Evolution Across The Human Genome]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Human Genome Project revealed that only a small fraction of the 3 billion &#8220;letter&#8221; DNA code actually instructs cells to manufacture proteins, the workhorses of most life processes. This has raised the question of what the remaining part of the human genome does. How much of the rest performs other biological functions, and how much is merely residue of prior genetic events?<br/><br/>Evolution FTW.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/57566/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/57566/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Becoming Human:  Paleoanthropology, Evolution and Human Origins]]></title><description><![CDATA[Journey through the story of human evolution in an interactive documentary.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/20775/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/20775/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[The Future of Human Evolution]]></title><description><![CDATA[What will your descendants look like in five million years? <br/>There are a lot of variables in the equation, including whether or not humans beings will survive at all. This site looks at a bunch of alternate views of a possible future.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/15604/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/15604/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Losses Of Long-established Genes Contribute To Human Evolution]]></title><description><![CDATA[While it is well understood that the evolution of new genes leads to adaptations that help species survive, gene loss may also afford a selective advantage. A group of scientists has investigated this less-studied idea, carrying out the first systematic computational analysis to identify long-established genes that have been lost across millions of years of evolution leading to the human species.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/44296/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/44296/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Human Age]]></title><description><![CDATA[Human age is a simulation game / free virtual management game / rpg where you adopt a human being and help him or her through various ages of mankind, from prehistory to the 21st century, from learning how to use a club to your driver's license.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/35951/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/35951/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Universal Declaration of Human Rights flies into space]]></title><description><![CDATA[&#8220;All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a sprit of brotherhood&#8221;, states Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/81576/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/81576/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Accelerating human evolution]]></title><description><![CDATA[A fascinating summary of some recent research on human evolution, that appears to be speeding up.  Look for the controversial stuff in the last two paragraphs, and consider the various possible implications...]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/44098/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/44098/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Human evolution animation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Carl Sagan brings us the Cosmos, everything that ever was and ever will be, in an approach that is easily accessible even for those of us that are not science wizards. This series covers everything from the history of astronomy, the challenges it faced at its creation, how the universe was created and how it all might end, to the evolution of life on Earth, and the nature of the human brain.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/47409/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/47409/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[How warfare shaped human evolution]]></title><description><![CDATA[T'S a question at the heart of what it is to be human: why do we go to war? The cost to human society is enormous, yet for all our intellectual development, we continue to wage war well into the 21st century.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/81885/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/81885/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Evolutionary comparison finds new human genes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Using supercomputers to compare portions of the human genome with those of other mammals, researchers at Cornell have discovered some 300 previously unidentified human genes, and found extensions of several hundred genes already known. The discovery is based on the idea that as organisms evolve, sections of genetic code that do something useful for the organism change in different ways.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/42555/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/42555/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Science fiction 'thrives in hi-tech world' ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Science fiction writer Alastair Reynolds is in a prime position to look dispassionately at the present and project into the future, having spent 12 years as an astronomer with the European Space Agency (Esa).<br/><br/>Books apparently blurring the science:fiction boundary as well as the present:future boundary.  Has anybody out there read any of these?]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18652/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18652/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Early Human Populations Evolved Separately For 100,000 Years]]></title><description><![CDATA[A team of Genographic researchers have published the most extensive survey to date of African mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Analyses of the extensive data presented in this study provide surprising insights into the early demographic history of human populations before they moved out of Africa, illustrating that these early human populations were small and isolated from each other for many tens of thousands of years.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/59639/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/59639/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Human embryonic stem cells developed from 4-cell embryo; world first may lessen ethical concerns]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the first time in the world scientists have succeeded in developing human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) from a single cell, or blastomere, of a 4-cell stage embryo. This means it might be possible in the future to produce hESC lines at an earlier stage without destroying the embryo.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/68247/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/68247/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Human Mirror]]></title><description><![CDATA[Double, Double, Vision, Vision.<br/>15 pairs of twins create a human mirror on a New York subway car.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/arts/l/68498/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/arts/l/68498/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Human Race Split In Two? - Utter Nonsense ]]></title><description><![CDATA[not a repost. This is a scientist's response to the less-than-knowledgeable guy who predicted that the human race would split into two groups mentioned here:<br/><div style='display:block;width:300px;overflow:hidden;'><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://plime.com/science/l/3569/1/" rel="nofollow">http://plime.com/science/l/3569/1/</a></div>]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/3627/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/3627/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Million-year-old human tooth found]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spanish researchers have reportedly unearthed a human tooth more than one million years old, which they estimated to be the oldest human fossil remain ever discovered in western Europe.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/26297/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/26297/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Prize established for creating planet's first artificial life form]]></title><description><![CDATA[The purpose of the A-PRIZE is to put development of artificial life forms in the open where it should be. Today, many efforts at developing artificial life are not well publicized. The A-PRIZE will serve as a clearing house for information about the race to &quot;Break the Carbon Barrier&quot;. With mega-universities and companies racing to create nonbiological life, now is the time for such a clearing house.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/10156/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/10156/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Human Slingshot]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oh my god, i would never do this.<br/>She goes alot farther than i expected.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/12532/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/12532/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[New legal threat to school science in the US]]></title><description><![CDATA[On the 28 June, The Science Education Act was passed as law in the State of Louisiana. This piece of legislature now allows teachers in this US state to present non-scientific alternatives to evolution, global warming and cloning &#8211; including ideas related to intelligent design. Opponents fear that Louisiana teachers are now free to present evolution and other targeted topics as matters of debate rather than broadly accepted science, and could have national implications.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/68194/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/68194/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Voluntary Human Extinction]]></title><description><![CDATA[When every human chooses to stop breeding, Earth's biosphere will be allowed to return to its former glory, and all remaining creatures will be free to live, die, and evolve.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/16267/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/16267/1/</guid><category>science</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item></channel></rss>