Month: May 2010
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Grizzly-Polar bear hybrids in the wild
Timely, Pizzly Bears: Scientists confirmed last week that a bear shot by an Inuvialuit hunter in the Northwest Territories is a second-generation grizzly-polar bear hybrid—a “pizzly” or “grolar” bear. Not that big of a deal. It is likely that polar bears are simply a recent derived variant of brown bear. The main issue not noted…
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Who are the living Neandertals?
I guess now we kind of know.
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Loading up on human evolution in PNAS
Click the Early Edition and control-f “Sackler.”