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It's paradoxical that there are some species out there that we just can't exterminate, and not for want of trying. These creatures breed out of control and march steadily forth, taking human territory miles at a time. 
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Throughout human evolution, multiple versions of humans co-existed. Could we be mid-upgrade now? At TEDxSummit, Juan Enriquez sweeps across time and space to bring us to the present moment -- and shows how technology is revealing evidence that suggests rapid evolution may be under way. Via Sue Tamani
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Online mapping tool streamlines global species distributions. Map of Life — an interactive resource for global biodiversity analysis — launches today, promising a new era in the visualization of species distribution
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http://www.erderetten.de George Church, Pioneer in Synthetic Biology, Harvard & MIT, USA (c) Brinzanik/Hülswitt/Kreis... Via Gerd Moe-Behrens
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Intelligent life may be in it's "very young" stage in the observable Universe. Its 200 billion galaxies show a clear potential to continue on as we see them today for hundreds of billions of years, if not much longer. Because planets and life are so young in our Universe, says Harvard's Dimitar Sasselov, perhaps "the human species are not late comers to the party. We may be among the early ones."
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Fast-track warming in Europe is making butterflies and birds fall behind in the move to cooler habitats and prompting a worrying turnover in alpine plant species, studies published Sunday said.
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CBS News: "Lost world" uncovered on ocean floor - British scientists say they have discovered an exciting 'lost world' full of previously undiscovered marine species on the seabed of the Southern Ocean, near Antarctica.
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A report from the Wildlife Conservation Society warns that several dozen “spectacular migrations” — in the air and on land — are in peril.
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A study of South American songbirds completed by the Department of Biology at Queen's University and the Argentine Museum of Natural History, has discovered these birds differ dramatically in colour and song yet show very little genetic differences...
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It was the greatest exinction event of all time (at least by Earth standards): Since the first organisms appeared on Earth approximately 3.8 billion years ago, life on the planet has had some close calls.
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Think your DNA is 100 percent Homo sapiens? Think again. A recent study in the journal Nature reports that at least 40 million years ago, our primate ancestors "invited" a gene from an infecting virus into their genomes. Because this phenomenon adds novelty to a species' DNA makeup, it may represent a newly discovered mode of evolutionary change.
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For example the Sneezing Monkey: Found by scientists conducting a gibbon survey in the mountains of Myanmar, Rhinopithecus strykeri, a snubnosed primate, is critically endangered. It sneezes when rain gets inside its snout, and can be found by waiting until the weather turns and listening for sneezes in the trees.
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What if we could pinpoint the most powerful players in a given food web, those "keystone" species without which the entire ecosystem would collapse? And what if we could predict how changes to one ecosystem would affect its various organisms based on data collected from another ecosystem half a world away?
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This skull has a weird mix of ancient and modern traits. It was discovered in a cave in southwest China and dates to between 14,500 and 11,500 years ago.
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An armoured catfish, a cowboy frog, and a 'Crayola' katydid are among the 46 new species discovered during an expedition to remote areas of Suriname...
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An experiment led by Laurent Keller at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and by Steffen Wischmann and Dario Floreano at EPFL shows that communication systems can evolve differently within the same species and even the same...
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Communities of species previously unknown to science have been discovered on the seafloor near Antarctica, clustered in the hot, dark environment surrounding hydrothermal vents.
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Three Simon Fraser University biologists and an International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) scientist say it’s no longer fiction but fact. No one will be able to find Nemo if conservation action isn’t taken soon.
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"Now that we can rewrite the code of life, Darwinian evolution can't stop us, says investor Juan Enriquez." Via Yvan Marechal, Frederic Emam-Zade Gerardino
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The advancement of genome sequencing technology has allowed scientists to make changes to our genetic code which will take us beyond the constraints of Darwinian evolution, says technologist Juan Enriquez. "The new human species is one that begins to engineer the evolution of viruses, plants, animals, and itself. As we do that, Darwin's rules get significantly bent, and sometimes even broken." He says evolution will one day be guided by what humans engineer.
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