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Mortified Series 1 Ep 21 The Family Tree

Edit Australian Broadcasting Corporation 17 Jun 2016
When Taylor has an assignment on an ancestor for school she's horrified that her whole family is too embarrassing - until Great Aunt Ally comes for a visit ... ....

Life as we know it most likely arose via 'long, slow dance'

Edit Science Daily 17 Jun 2016
The first eukaryote is thought to have arisen when simpler archaea and bacteria joined forces. But researchers now propose that new genomic evidence derived from a deep-sea vent on the ocean floor suggests that the molecular machinery essential to eukaryotic life was probably borrowed, little by little over time, from those simpler ancestors ... ....

Lynden companies carry ceremonial totem pole to Hoonah, AK (Lynden Incorporated)

Edit Public Technologies 17 Jun 2016
(Source. Lynden Incorporated). Alaska Marine Lines and LTI, Inc. donated the transportation of a ceremonial totem pole from Bellingham, WA to Hoonah, AK for a June 4 dedication in the Tlingit village ... The advance of the 'Little Ice Age' between 1300-1870 drove the Tlingit out of Glacier Bay. The pole remained and was eventually enveloped in ice ... 'We felt the presence of our ancestors,' says Skaflestad who is part Tlingit ... (noodl. 34142845) ....

Sweat, sorcery and family honour in traditional Burkina sport

Edit Modern Ghana 16 Jun 2016
By Nabila El Hadad. Wrestlers compete in the National Wrestling championship in Tougan, an annual national championship in the northwestern town of Tougan, Burkina Faso. By Nabila Hadad (AFP) ... sorcery, mysticism and the power of their ancestors also play a part ... But this time, the charm, as well as prayers to his ancestors, was not enough ... - 'I wrestle for my ancestors' - ... He slits the bird's throat -- and talks about his ancestors ... ....

>Sweat, sorcery and family honour in traditional Burkina sport

Edit Modern Ghana 16 Jun 2016
By Nabila El Hadad. Wrestlers compete in the National Wrestling championship in Tougan, an annual national championship in the northwestern town of Tougan, Burkina Faso. By Nabila Hadad (AFP) ... sorcery, mysticism and the power of their ancestors also play a part ... But this time, the charm, as well as prayers to his ancestors, was not enough ... - 'I wrestle for my ancestors' - ... He slits the bird's throat -- and talks about his ancestors ... ....

Patagonia Proves Extinctions Down to Both Hunting And Climate Change

Edit IFL Science 16 Jun 2016
Giant sloths and other great beasts of Ice Age South America withstood the arrival of humans for thousands of years, new research has revealed ... Only the ancestors of llamas and alpacas survived, and even these appear to have barely made it through ... Only the ancestors of llamas and alpacas survived the megafauna apocalypse, and even they died out in Patagonia before recolonising from the north....

Italian team finds earliest footprints of Homo Erectus

Edit The Local 16 Jun 2016
A team of Italian researchers have possibly uncovered the oldest ever fossilized footprint left behind by modern man's ancestor, Homo Erectus ... ....

FEATURE: Sweat, sorcery and honor in Burkinabe sport

Edit Taipei Times 16 Jun 2016
Fortified by a diet of goat meat and millet beer, Idrissa and Eloi train hard all year long to help maintain Burkina Faso’s colorful and age-old traditional wrestling ... sorcery, mysticism and the power of their ancestors also play a part ... It’s part of our heritage.” ... Idrissa was told to wash with the amulets morning and evening before a match, but this time, the charm, as well as prayers to his ancestors, was not enough ... ....

Gene copies were crucial to evolution of our eyesight (Uppsala universitet)

Edit Public Technologies 16 Jun 2016
(Source. Uppsala universitet). 2016-06-16 ... Evolution has favoured selection of the camera eye that arose in the vertebrate ancestor more than 500 million years ago ... Altogether, the study reinforces the evolutionary importance of the two rounds of whole genome duplication that occurred in the vertebrate ancestor and sheds light on the different behaviour of gene duplicates that arose in these events ... Reference ... Linda Koffmar ... (noodl....

Evolution of vertebrate vision (Uppsala universitet)

Edit Public Technologies 16 Jun 2016
(Source. Uppsala universitet). Press release. 2016-06-15 ... Evolution has favoured selection the camera eye that arose in the vertebrate ancestor over 500 million years ago ... Altogether, the data presented in this study reinforces the evolutionary importance of the two rounds of whole genome duplication that occurred in the vertebrate ancestor and sheds light on the differential behaviour of gene duplicates that arose in these events ... Dr....

UAE Friday sermon: Self-reliant youth build up self-reliant nation

Edit The National 16 Jun 2016
Youngsters should not be spoilt with luxury but instead be taught how to be self-reliant so they can help their country develop, worshippers will be told on Friday. "We want a strong generation that preserves what the ancestors built and adds to it without relying on others," the sermon will say....

Shocked by Trump? Churchill Wanted to “Collar Them All”

Edit CounterPunch 16 Jun 2016
We’re outraged by Donald Trump’s demand to clamp down on all Muslim Immigration and his assertions that America’s Muslim communities must know about the radical jihadis in their midst ... Other workers were sacked just because they had foreign ancestors ... In that case, some calmer souls tried to point out, the British Royal Family should be deported as well, since their ancestors had originally come from Germany ... The police impounded it ... ....

The Story Of A Vulnerable Migrant    

Edit Modern Ghana 16 Jun 2016
Just this year 2016, in desperation to appease their gods, the younger brother of Mohammed by name Rashad was captured and appointed as the new Obrafuor since his brother was no way to be found and it has also been a longer period since the Anyinam enclave had an Obrafuor pending the approval of their ancestors....
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