RedOrbit
Shift to rugged land put man on two feet: study
The Japan Times
The research, published in the journal Antiquity, challenges the commonly held theory that early hominins (members of the broad human family) were forced onto two feet on the ground because climate change reduced the number of trees they lived in ...
How our ancestors started to walk on two feetZee News
Evolution of Walking: Why Early Humans Took to Two FeetDesign & Trend
Why did our ancestors start walking upright? Ancient terrain may hold clueChristian Science Monitor
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Aljazeera.com
Cultures of 'magic' and healing
Aljazeera.com
I'm a young, middle-class black South African, private school educated. My parents are both doctors, I come from privilege and I am comfortable in that world as I am comfortable in this world, where I throw bones and I have to slaughter [animals] for ...

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Nature's gift is not yet history
Sydney Morning Herald
But the filmmaker, David Attenborough, is not out of place - he's in his element, beaming into the camera with trademark enthusiasm as the animal puffs and writhes in its attempts to escape his grip. ... Attenborough is quick to point out that his ...

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Media Information 2013 May
AllAfrica.com
The Zambezi River Basin Atlas of the Changing Environment, the first of its kind in the Zambezi River Basin and in southern Africa, will be launched on 29 May in Luanda, Angola at a meeting of SADC Ministers responsible for Water. ... by the Southern ...

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Genetic Mapping of Key Domestic Species
AllAfrica.com
Agra Professional Services hosted an interactive discussion this Friday to investigate the need for genetic mapping of the main domestic animal breeds as well as selected species of game with a considerable commercial value. In a statement released ...

ABC News
Scientists announce top 10 new discovered species list for 2013. (Intl. Inst ...
ABC News
Another fascinating finding was a new species of monkey, the lesula, only the second new species of monkey to be discovered in Africa in the last 28 years. The IISE said the lesula has been known to the people of Congo, where it was discovered by ...
Monkey with 'human eyes' among top discoveries of 2012Telegraph.co.uk

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Edmonton Journal
Turkey-sized dinosaur roamed southern Alberta 77 million years ago
Edmonton Journal
“It shows us that dinosaur communities were structured much in the way that mammal communities are structured today,” Anthony Russell, a professor of biological sciences at the U of C, said in an email interview from southern Africa. “The smaller ...

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Should We Genetically Engineer African Orphans?
TakePart
AOCC hopes that the open-source genetic data will lead to “higher nutritional content for society over the decades to come,” thanks to plant scientists, breeders and farmers working with the genetic information and resulting hybrid and transgene plant ...

Pictures: Top 10 Newly Discovered Species of 2012
National Geographic
The group always unveils the list on the anniversary of the birth of botanist Carolus Linnaeus, the man responsible for devising the scientific classification of organisms. "There are a lot of scientists now that think we could lose 50 percent of the ...

High Point University (press release) (blog)
Finding the Big Five: HPU Students Research Exotic Animal Behavior in South ...
High Point University (press release) (blog)
The animal behavior psychology course consists of 15 students and two faculty members visiting South Africa and Swaziland for the month of May. During the spring semester, the class has focused on exotic animal behavior such as herd mentality, mating ...

National Geographic
Tracking Wild Dogs in Botswana's Okavango Delta
National Geographic
Wanting to learn more about these critically endangered canines, we spoke to Dr. “Tico” McNutt, founder and director of the Botswana Predator Conservation Trust. Tico and his wife Lesley have been running a research camp in the delta for the past 18 years.
Rhinos moved from South Africa to Botswana for safekeepingMongabay.com

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Can SA help Nigeria industrialise?
NewsDay
It is a move that is seen as an important milestone in inter-African industrial cooperation. However, Peter Draper, a research fellow at the South African Institute of International Affairs, questioned whether this collaboration would develop into ...

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Current Approach Of Fishery Industry Is Extremely Risky, Research Finds — May ...
PlanetSave.com
The research has found “that traditional fisheries targeting large predators such as cod and haddock, have declined over the past hundred years. In their place, catches of shellfish such as prawns, scallops and lobsters have rocketed as they begin to ...

Conflict Minerals Law Is Heavy Burden On Business, House Republicans Argue
Huffington Post
WASHINGTON -- Republicans at a House subcommittee hearing this week objected to a 2010 law that targets conflict minerals from Central Africa, saying it places too many regulations on U.S. businesses and hasn't accomplished enough since it went into ...

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NPR (blog)
Could African Crops Be Improved With Private Biotech Data?
NPR (blog)
About four years ago, Shapiro, a plant scientist who's also a senior fellow at the University of California, Davis, and the World Agroforestry Centre, learned about stunting, a result of malnutrition and undernutrition that affects 1 in 4 children ...

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Daily Mail
Mystery of Irish Potato Famine Solved
LiveScience.com
"We have finally discovered the identity of the exact strain that caused all this havoc," study co-author Hernán Burbano, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Germany, said in a statement. [Microscopic Worlds Gallery ...
Mold responsible for Irish potato famine may be gone for goodGrist
So THIS is what caused the Irish potato famine: Scientists finally identify ...Daily Mail
Irish potato famine pathogen identifiedBBC News
domain-B -BreakingNews.ie -The Daily Shift
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AU @ 50… Rock arts showpiece lights up Addis Ababa
The Guardian Nigeria
It would be recalled that a landmark platform on research findings on African heritage in line with CBAAC's pan-African mandate took off effectively at the African Rock Art meeting held in Nairobi, Kenya on May 23 and 24, 2006. This was followed up ...

AFP
Tools, artistry flourished with climate change, study says
NBCNews.com (blog)
Sophisticated stone tool-making, artistic symbolism and trade networks were all innovated during times in the Stone Age when the South African climate abruptly became warmer and wetter, according to a new study. The research is the first to "show that ...
Ancient Human Innovations Linked to Climate ShiftsLiveScience.com

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Daily Mail
So THIS is what caused the Irish potato famine: Scientists finally identify ...
Daily Mail
Molecular biologists from Europe and the U.S. reconstructed the spread of the potato blight pathogen from dried plants which, although 120 to 170-years-old, had many intact pieces of DNA. The researchers found that the strain of blight originated in ...
Irish potato famine pathogen identifiedBBC News
Scientists identify strain of blight responsible for potato famineBreakingNews.ie
Mystery Irish Potato Famine pathogen identified 170 years laterWired.co.uk
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E&T magazine
Scientists to help African farmers
E&T magazine
In response, laboratories across the world are applying advanced scientific methods to provide a viable way of making cereal crops more robust. "Working within this field is ... Nick Talbot, however, is not a charity worker; he is vice chancellor at a ...