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POPSStirring find in Xuchang "新华网, China - Jan 27, 2008 Prior to this discovery, scientists had found Hominid fossils in many parts of China - Wushan of Chongqing, Lantian of Shaanxi province, Jinniu of Liaoning"
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POPSFossils solve mystery of bat evolution Guardian Unlimited - UK The oldest fossilized bats ever discovered have given palaeontologists an unprecedented insight into the flying mammals' evolution. The find puts to rest a
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POPSEmergence of Whales "The first whales are known from the Indo-Pakistan region of the ancient Tethys seaway in early Eocene sediments dating to about 50 million years ago."
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POPSarchaeocete.org Wadi el-Hitan contains fossils of the extinct suborder of whales, the archaeoceti, that date back about 40 million years
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POPSTethyan Himalaya : Eduardo Garzanti A complex interplay of tectonic, eustatic and oceanographic processes concurred in the development of ‘drowning unconformities’ at the top of the Giumal clastic shelf. Rapid deepening and waning of both volcanic and quartzo-feldspathic terrigenous detritus are mainly ascribed to the global mid-Cretaceous sea-level rise and to rapid thermo-tectonic subsidence at the end of the short-lived Albian magmatic event, possibly related to a mantle plume rising beneath northern India. Intensification of the east-bound oceanic current off the north margin of India after the final break-up of Gondwanaland was responsible for continuous resuspension and minimal accumulation rates around the shelf-break. The associated coastal upwelling favoured impingement of the oxygen-minimum zone on the outer shelf, with glauco-phosphorite deposition coinciding in time with peak global transgressions and ‘anoxic events’ in the world oceans.
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POPSEvolution of Whales Ed Babinski works on the staff of the Duke Library at Furman University, Greenville, SC.The Evolution of Whales Based on November 2001 National Geographic Magazine, "The Evolution of Whales". Covering the Evolutionary Origins of Modern Whales and Dolphins. Reviewed, with some edits by Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Dr. J.G.M. Thewissen, with additional comments by Edward T. Babinski, and revised text and art by Sharon Mooney. All images reconstructed from National Geographic, are public access, though source and appropriate credits must be left intact.
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POPSA new wrinkle in evolution -- Man-made proteins
Their most recent results, published in the May 23rd edition of the journal PLoS ONE, have led to some surprisingly new lessons on how to optimize proteins which have never existed in nature before, in a process they call ‘synthetic evolution.’ "The goal of our research is to understand certain fundamental questions regarding the origin and evolution of proteins," said Chaput, a researcher in the institute’s Center for BioOptical Nanotechnology and assistant professor in Arizona State University’s department of chemistry and biochemistry. "Would proteins that we evolve in the lab look like proteins we see today in nature or do they look totally different from the set of proteins nature ultimately chose" By gaining a better understanding of these questions, we hope to one day create new tailor-made catalysts that can be used as therapeutics in molecular medicine or biocatalysts in biotechnology." The building blocks of proteins are 20 different amino acids that are strung together
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POPSWadia Institute Himalayan Geology The Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology carries out basic research in Himalayan Geology and related fields which includes geodynamic evolution, mountain building processes, geoenvironment and mineral resources. The research activities of the Institute are conducted through time - bound project mode and the areas of its multi- disciplinary research are organised into the following four areas namely: * Tectonophysics. * Petrology & Geochemistry. * Lithogenesis- Biostratigraphy. * Earth Resources and Environment.
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POPSEvolution of Life-C OAK:Magister Templi shows how modern science and chaos theory are compatable with advanced metaphysical concepts. This is the OAK 1st Degree study material. Science is not in conflict with paranormal and supernatural activitities.
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POPSStudy Of Protein Folds Offers Insight Into Metabolic Evolution “The most ancient (protein) molecules were involved in the interconversion of nucleotides. But they were not synthesizing them,” Caetano-Anollés said. “We see that all the enzymes that were involved in purine synthesis, for example, were very recent. Since these first proteins benefited the formation of building blocks for the primitive RNA world, it makes a lot of sense that we’ve found this origin encased in nucleotide metabolism.”
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POPSIsraeli researchers: 'Lucy' is not direct ancestor of humans The specific structure found in Lucy also appears in a species called Australopithecus robustus. Prof. Yoel Rak and colleagues at the Sackler School of Medicine's department of anatomy and anthropology wrote, "The presence of the morphology in both the latter and Australopithecus afarensis and its absence in modern humans cast doubt on the role of as a common ancestor."
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POPSAAT · shoreline adaptations in the genus Homo Human ancestors lived in warm & water-rich milieus. * Aquatic Ape Theory of human evolution (original term E.Morgan 1982) * Aquarboreal Apes Theory of Mio-Pliocene apes (aqua=water, arbor=tree) * Amphibious Ancestors Theory of Plio-Pleistocene Homo (AAT strict sense) AAT s.s. is based on comparisons of the behavior-anatomy-physiology-DNA of living humans with chimps & other animals. Waterside collection of coconuts, fruits, bird eggs, turtles, shell-, crayfish, waterplants... explains unique Homo traits (not in apes & australopiths) better than plains- or forest-dwelling: brain size, diving skills, breath control, vocality, small mouth & chewing muscles, tongue bone descent, longer airway, projecting nose, poor sense of smell, handiness, tool use, late puberty, long legs, aligned body, poor climbing, plantigrady, midfoot lengthening & toe shortening, fur loss, fatness, profuse sweating, high needs of water, sodium, iodine & poly-unsat.fatty acids... Homo & Pan split ~6-4 Ma.
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