(PhysOrg.com) -- To figure out how ancient humans adapted to their environment and constructed civilizations, you need to know the environment in which they lived -- including climate change over ...
... that researchers can now do a much better job of finding the regions within the genome responsible for specific human adaptations and relate them to changes in human history or ...
... experiments designed to combine the H5N1 virus and human flu viruses and then see how the resulting ... circulating in parts of Asia might combine with a human-adapted flu virus, namely if someone with ...
... four times longer than a normal breath cycle -- an ability that had been thought to be a uniquely human adaptation, important to our capacity to speak.
"Taken together," the researchers wrote, "the ...
... that recent climate-induced ecosystem changes are now so abundant, society needs to discuss policies that will help humans adapt to the changes under way, said Veblen. In the context ...
... hygiene, this indirect effect of climate change via human adaptation could dramatically re-expand the mosquito's current range," he says.
Ae. aegypti probably arrived in Australia ...
... improve astronaut performance and health, as well as mitigate risk, according to Judith Hayes, NASA deputy chief, human adaptation and countermeasures division based at the Johnson Space ...
A new theory about early human adaptation suggests that our ancestors capitalized on their capacities for play to enable the development of a highly cooperative way of life. Writing in the current ...
... , as well as traditional practices that could both ease climate change and help all humanity adapt to its anticipated consequences.
With scientific experts now predicting that the effects of climate ...
... of viral genes," write the NIAID authors.
"All human-adapted influenza A viruses of today—both seasonal ... elusive, notes Dr. Morens.
It is known that the human immune system mounts a defense against ...
... landscapes," the dynamic and varied conditions under which bacteria, viruses and even humans adapt. A major conclusion of the work is that for some organisms, possibly including humans, continued ...
