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Rapid climate change helped humans to evolve
Posted by Daily Mail: Damien Gayle on December 28th, 2012
Daily Mail: How rapid climate change helped humans to evolve: Our ancestors 'had to adapt quickly to changing habitats'
Findings contradict previous theories which suggest change was gradual
Terrain changed from woods to grassland 'five or six times over 200,000 years', researchers claim
Rapid changes said to have triggered development of the brain as humans struggled to deal with changing environment
Human evolution may have been driven by rapid climate change in Africa two million years ago, new...
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US officials rule ‘Frankenfish’ is safe for environment
Posted by Daily Mail: Damien Gayle on December 24th, 2012
Daily Mail: Genetically modified salmon could soon be found on supermarket fish counters after the U.S. food safety watchdog ruled it posed no environmental risks, it emerged today.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it could find no valid scientific reasons to ban production of Atlantic salmon engineered with extra genes from two other fish species.
If it is now given final approval, the fish will be the first GM animal to hit supermarket shelves anywhere in the world - and in the U.S. they may...