
Again an extremely powerful cover by +TIME.

Read the cover story: http://goo.gl/nxlnd
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+NASA published several snapshots showing the steady construction of this over the last couple of years that is now going into its final stage: http://goo.gl/i6ugv


'Brown sampled DNA from the female skeleton's jawbone, skull, arm, and leg. The results show that bones came from different people, none of whom even shared the same mother, he said.'
'A cynical theory, study author Brown said, assumes that the Bronze Age people of Cladh Hallan were just eminently practical: "Maybe the head dropped off and they got another head to stick on."'
Read more at +National Geographic http://goo.gl/yVarp
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In album Abstracts and Patterns (Nature) (51 photos)

Reshared post from +Dan Bowden
Since I've gained so many new followers over the last few weeks I thought I'd reshare some of my albums with them!
This is my Abstracts and Patterns (Nature) album. It's a work in progress!
And since it's #ScienceSunday I may as well tag +Rajini Rao and +Robby Bowles as well!
Enjoy
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Comparing chromatin signatures (DNaseI hypersensitive) and transcript abundances (DGE sequencing) for 3 humans, 3 chimpanzees and 3 macaques shows evidence of gain and loss of regulatory elements that correlate with species-specific phenotypic changes. Also, they show that SNPs inside regulatory elements might be responsible for the variation in specie specific functions.
PLoS Genetics: Extensive Evolutionary Changes in Regulatory Element Activity during Human Origins Are Associated with Altered Gene Expression and Positive Selection
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PLoS Genetics: Extensive Evolutionary Changes in Regulatory Element Activity during Human Origins Are Associated with Altered Gene Expression and Positive Selection
PLoS Genetics is an open-access
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