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From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 234)Francesca Aran Murphy shows that Robert Bellah puts creative freedom at the heart of human nature. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, Immanuel Kant contended that struggle is the motive force of human...
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From:Science (Vol. 238, Issue 4825) Peer-ReviewedMy Close Cousin the Chimpanzee "IF Morris Goodman is correct in his conclusion, we will just have to go back to the anatomical evidence and find out what we've been missing,' says Lawrence Martin, an anthropologist at...
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From:Science (Vol. 276, Issue 5317) Peer-ReviewedHominid fossils found at Atapuerca, Spain, date back 780,000 years and appear to represent the oldest known ancestor of both Neanderthals and modern humans. The new species has been named Homo antecessor. An...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 70, Issue 267) Peer-ReviewedThe book 'Ape, Man, Ape-Man: Changing Views Since 1600' provides new insights on human evolution. An interdisciplinary approach was used in the study of apes and hominid ancestors while the subject of human origins was...
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From:Science (Vol. 277, Issue 5323) Peer-ReviewedResearchers have recovered and analyzed a tiny sample of DNA from the Neanderthal skeleton discovered in Germany in 1856. The analysis found a DNA sequence different from that of modern humans, indicating Neanderthals...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 16, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCooperation is crucial to overcome some of the most pressing social challenges of our times, such as the spreading of infectious diseases, corruption and environmental conservation. Yet, how cooperation emerges and...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 11, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedRotavirus is the leading cause of severe acute gastroenteritis among children worldwide. Despite effective vaccines, inexpensive alternatives such as probiotics are needed. The aim of this study was to assess the...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 14, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe evolution in animals of a first possession convention, in which individuals retain what they are the first to acquire, has often been taken as a foundation for the evolution of human ownership institutions. However,...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 16, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedWe use high resolution satellite data on the proportion of buildings in a 250x250 meter cell to study the evolution of human settlement in Ghana over a 40 year period. We find a strong increase in built-up area over...
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From:ReVision (Vol. 24, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn the face of the ecological problems now plaguing planet Earth, increasing numbers of people are demanding that sweeping action be taken before those problems cause irreparable damage to the ecosphere. We must do...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Lux Miranda *, Jacob Freeman Introduction The emerging model of "recurrent social formations" postulates that only a small number of stable social-ecological configurations exist for human societies...
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From:The Scientist (Vol. 15, Issue 13) Peer-ReviewedThe fact that the human genome is nearly identical to those of hairier cousins suggests that a few genes may account for the differences. One candidate is a keratin gene that is silenced in humans, yet expressed in...
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From:Science (Vol. 267, Issue 5194) Peer-ReviewedScientists have discovered a clue to why human DNA has much less genetic variation than the genetic material of the great apes. Mathematical analysis of population genetics indicates that early humans lost genetic...
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From:MAMC Journal of Medical Sciences (Vol. 2, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed
A comprehensive review of evolution of human resources for health in public health services in India
Byline: Nandini. Sharma, A. Raman, Charu. Kohli, Pawan. Kumar Health workers are the most valuable assets of the health system as it is a labor-intensive service industry. There is, however, a continuing shortage of... -
From:Nature (Vol. 457, Issue 7231) Peer-ReviewedCurrent Biol. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2008.12.049 (2009) 'Pygmy' is a blanket term for many Central African populations that have an average male height of 150 centimetres or less. Whether these groups share a common...
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From:Daedalus (Vol. 138, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn 1992, at the start of the surprisingly short decade's march toward the sequencing of the human genome, one of its key initiators, geneticist Walter Gilbert, claimed that "one will be able to pull a CD out of one's...
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From:Human Biology (Vol. 83, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe first Neanderthal DNA sequences were reported in 1997 (Krings et al. 1997), which at the time, despite comprising a mere 370 bp of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), represented a major breakthrough in ancient DNA research....
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From:Daedalus (Vol. 138, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedEditors' note: This year marks the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth. Darwin famously breathed new life into the philosophical and scientific debates about humanness by asserting in "The Descent of Man " (1871)...
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From:Humanist in Canada (Vol. 37, Issue 148) Peer-ReviewedEvolution, I believe, is unobservable anywhere, at any time. --Frank Swoboda THE DATE IS NOVEMBER 6, 2003. The place is the Unitarian Fellowship of London, Ontario. The principals are Dr Goldwyn Emerson, Professor...
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From:Journal of Dental Hygiene (Vol. 78, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedKaterina Harvati, PhD, paleoanthropologist at New York University, and colleagues, have discovered evidence that suggests Neanderthals should be classified as a separate species from Homo sapiens. Currently,...