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Gene combinations containing two forms of genes that offer partial protection against malaria were found to be statistically common in African populations but absent in populations outside the continent.

Author: By Ishani Ganguli, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Team Tracks Evolution in Genome | 10/10/2002 | See Source »

Our species has driven other species to extinction for thousands of years, and the process has only sped up in the last 200. A 1999 report in the journal Science showed that the extinction of a large Australian bird called Genyornis newtoni 50,000 years ago was likely due to...

Author: By Jonathan H. Esensten, CAVORTING BEASTIES | Title: Why a Rat Had To Die | 10/10/2002 | See Source »

New Continent, New Role

Author: By Jessica T. Lee and Brenda Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Maasdorp Makes Waves Across All Waters | 10/9/2002 | See Source »

If any country embodied the spirit of pan-Africanism that swept the continent at the time of independence it was Ivory Coast. The country's vibrant cocoa and coffee industries were built on the sweat of laborers from French-speaking Mali and Burkina Faso and Anglophone Ghana and Nigeria. Millions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cracks in the Ivory | 10/6/2002 | See Source »

When Lola Muñoz says that she's 2,500 years old, you can't help but think that she's looking good for her age. Then the Spanish singer points at her sister Lucia: "She is 1,765 ... and I'm sure I was a bird at one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stars for a Season | 10/6/2002 | See Source »

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