Cirencester, looking east down Market Place. |
The Romans knew it as Corinium, Corinium Dobunnorum (after the local Celtic tribe the Dubonnii)
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Cirencester, looking east down Market Place. |
Malarial parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, in human blood. |
Guardian Angel; Bernhard Plockhorst (1825–1907) Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. |
Protoclaviger trichodens in Cambay amber Parker and Grimaldi, Specialized Myrmecophily at the Ecological Dawn of Modern Ants, Current Biology (2014) |
Amir-Aslani, 37. Hanged for making "innovations in the religion", "spreading corruption on earth" and "insulting prophet Jonah" |
Trepezia flavopunctata. The largest species of guard crab. Photo: Seabird McKeon |
While the relationship between coral and crab has been known for a while, researchers have now found
Fundamentalist Mormons harvest the community garden along with their children at the Rockland Ranch community outside Moab, Utah, November 3, 2012. Photo by Jim Urquhart/Reuters |
Dinesh D'Souza Source: Wikipedia |
Jim Wells, DUP, Minister of Health for Northern Ireland |
PHOTO: REUTERS/MAX ROSSI |
Darwin's "warm little pond" |
Archetypal European hunter-gatherer |
Ant with mite on its head, in amber. Photo: Jason Dunlop/Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin |
Polypterus senegalus |
Irish Cardinal Sean Baptist Brady arrives for a meeting at the Synod Hall in the Vatican, March 6, 2013. Photo: REUTERS/Tony Gentile |
Around the turn of the century, the famous scientist Lord Kelvin created difficulties for evolutionists by presenting a number of powerful arguments against the long ages needed by their theory. In a widely heralded debate with the famous evolutionist Thomas Huxley, Lord Kelvin tore the evolutionists' position to shreds with simple and straightforward physical arguments that the earth and solar system were not old enough for life to have arisen by Darwin's proposed evolutionary process. Among Lord Kelvin's arguments on the age issue was the time factor for the sun's survival based upon Helmholtz's accepted model of gravitational collapse. Lord Kelvin had the theory of evolution on the ropes and had seemingly dealt the knockout blow.
The German Cockroach, Blatella germanica. Image: Alex Wild/Visuals Unlimited/Corbis. |
Blue-tailed-Emerald, Chlorostilbon mellisugus. Photo: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen |
Baka pygmies, West Africa |
Significance
Tropical rainforest hunter-gatherer populations worldwide share the pygmy phenotype, or small human body size. The evolutionary history of this phenotype is largely unknown. Here we studied DNA from the Batwa, a rainforest hunter-gatherer population from east central Africa, to identify regions of the Batwa genome that underlie the pygmy phenotype. We then performed population genomic analyses to study the evolution of these regions, including comparisons with the Baka, a west central African rainforest hunter-gatherer population. We conclude that the pygmy phenotype likely arose due to positive natural selection and that it arose possibly