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Airplanes are indispensable for long trips over oceans, over a continent or half a continent. But air travel makes no sense over short distances. In any case, the evolution of cell phones and e-mail and the Internet and videoconferencing means that people need to travel less on business, not...
Linguists have long been fascinated by a London extended family with a rare hereditary speech disorder. Half the 30 family members have a genetic mutation that makes clear speech impossible. Although normal in other respects, they can't pronounce complex words like hippopotamus and don't use connecting terms like...
By comparing DNA from humans, chimpanzees and other animals, researchers from the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany, and the University of Oxford in England determined that FOXP2 hardly changed during the evolution of mammals. But their analysis, reported last week in Nature, indicated a subtle genetic shift in the...
Airplanes are indispensable for long trips over oceans, over a continent or half a continent. But air travel makes no sense over short distances. In any case, the evolution of cell phones and e-mail and the Internet and videoconferencing means that people need to travel less on business, not...
Finding Toumai Man, the oldest hominid, in Chad [PALEONTOLOGY, July 22] fits in well with the theory of punctuated equilibrium developed by paleontologists Niles Eldridge and Stephen Jay Gould. [The theory explains why new species, rather than evolving gradually over millions of years, seem to suddenly appear in the fossil...