«This is a dramatic example of
how recent human history has profoundly shaped patterns of genetic variation,» said Joshua Akey,...
Not exact matches
At a
recent conference on the topic, organized by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of
Human History in Jena, Germany, presentation after presentation highlighted
how prehistoric people burned the forest, cleared it, farmed it, nurtured certain of its tree species, and even built cities in it, leaving lasting, if subtle, marks.
How do you house, feed and care for the millions of traumatised people who make up the biggest
human migration in
recent history?
It's interesting to think about
how this kind of true love is a relatively
recent concept in
human history.
The authors explain
how scientists piece together the Earth's «climate
history» from tree rings, mud cores, ice cores, and other sources;
how this
history compares with
recent climate patterns; and
how greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide - much of it
human - made - are impacting climate.
How is it that the conclusions of climate scientists can be called into question as a result of supposedly dubious statistical techniques, but the long
history of nonsense from the skeptics, (such as the Robinson et al paper that accompanied the politically motivated Oregon Petition, the corporate funded propaganda campaigns of the Global Climate Coalition, and the
recent urban myth that Martian «global warming» disproves a
human influence on earthly climate) tells us nothing about the integrity of the skeptic theory of climate?