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“Be sure that when your parents were younger and when my parents were younger, they also worried about who liked, and did not like them. That is a
big part of what it means to belong to a social group. We worry about this constantly as individuals. Human beings are fraught with this sense,” says political psychologist Prof Rajen Govender of the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, UCT.
Today, technology has, in many ways, given us an instrument to enhance our sense of belonging: that one instrument can have simplified the way we connect with each other is astounding, and from “befriending” to fitting into one group, satisfying one of our most basic human needs, is now as easy as the click of a button.
DNA Shows Ancient Siberians Domesticated Dogs, Who Then Helped Settle America
February 05, 2021 13:16 GMT
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Scientists have long sought an indisputable link showing when humans first domesticated dogs, steering a few receptive gray wolves descendants toward lives as lapdogs.
The origins of their domestic relationship is one of the most hotly debated questions around dogs undying loyalty to their masters and humankind’s unparalleled reliance on dogs to get a leg up on other predators in a frequently hostile environment.
Now, a team of interdisciplinary researchers has used DNA and other evidence to assert a tandem movement in and then beyond northeastern Siberia at a key stage of human and canid development late in the last Ice Age.
An individual whale that has been studied in Florida over the last two years is part of a small group being named a new species. Where the sea creature was found sets it apart from similar animals. Rice’s whale is a newly-named species of fewer than 100 baleen whales found in the northeastern Gulf of […]
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In Guyanese savannas, a fungus infects grasslike plants, sterilizes them and produces bizarre all-fungal “flower” doppelgängers
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Two orange-yellow “blooms” at right are fungal mimics of flowers produced by yellow-eyed grasses, such as the one at left. Credit: K. Wurdack
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On a collection trip to Guyana in 2006, botanist Kenneth Wurdack was strolling along an airstrip at Kaieteur National Park when he noticed something unusual about the flowers on two species of yellow-eyed grasses. Unlike the species’ typical blooms, they were a more orange shade of yellow, tightly clustered and spongy in texture. “I just sort of filed it away as an incidental thing,” Wurdack says.