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...established in a paper published in December in Science. Now a report in the American Naturalist explains just why Ebola is spreading among the animals so furiously - and shows how it could be stopped, according to lead author Peter Walsh of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Leipzig, Germany. The epidemiological tactics used to treat outbreaks of human scourges like E. coli hold the answer. Ebola is transmitted by contact with body fluids, and it's rapidly fatal. When people get it, they become so sick so fast - their organs literally liquefy - that others try to stay away...
...sometime in the next few weeks, a team led by molecular geneticist Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, Germany, will announce an even more stunning achievement: the sequencing of a significant fraction of the genome of Neanderthals--the human-like species we picture when we hear the word caveman--who are far closer to us genetically than chimps are. And though Neanderthals became extinct tens of thousands of years ago, Pääbo is convinced he's on the way to reconstructing the entire genome of that long-lost relative, using...
...factor was responsible for differences in each species’ cognitive ability and why some species are better at reading human signals, Wrangham said. Wobber wanted to know if this was the result of domestication. Wobber, who conducted thesis research at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, examined various dog breeds. Among these was the New Guinea Singing Dog, a breed that had limited human contact but was domesticated very early, Wrangham said. Wobber found that dogs’ understanding of human signals has evolved over time through domestication. Wobber argued that inter-human communication...
...same posts at St. Thomas’s in New York City, perennially one of the best choirs in New York. Over the course of a life devoted to the organ, he has earned an impressive array of awards, including the prestigious International J.S. Bach Organ Competition in Leipzig. Lauded as “the premier English organist of his generation…in a class of his own,” by the Manchester Evening News, Scott is best known for his virtuosic performances of large-scale Romantic and twentieth century repertoire. He commands an imposing talent, softened...
...East German resort town of Templin. She joined the Young Pioneers, a communist youth group, but focused mainly on her studies. At home, her family talked politics nonstop, but, she said in her autobiography, "it was completely theoretical because we could not change anything." After studying physics at Leipzig University, she began looking for work. Applying for a job at a technical institute, she was approached by the secret police to spy on colleagues. She says she begged off, telling them she couldn't keep her mouth shut. They left her alone. But she didn't get the teaching...