Early Europeans unable to stomach milk
... In a study, published in the journal 'PNAS', the team shows that the gene that controls our ability to digest milk was missing from Neolithic skeletons dating to between 5840 and 5000 BC. However, through exposure to milk, lactose tolerance evolved extremely rapidly, in evolutionary terms. Today, it is present in over ninety per cent of the population of northern Europe and is also found in...Putting a face on the earliest modern Europeans
... An international team of researchers, including Hlene Rougier, Ph.D., post-doctoral fellow, and Erik Trinkaus, Ph.D., professor of anthropology, at Washington University in St. Louis, has been studying a 35,000-year-old cranium discovered in the Pestera cu Oase, in western Romania. The fossil specimen is the earliest largely...First-time analysis reveals millions of Europeans left at risk from influenza
... For the first time, researchers have attempted to develop a model to enable European public health officials to visualise the need for better influenza control and implement the World Health Organization's (WHO) recommendations...Americans less likely to accept evolution than Europeans
... ... ... For example, i...Research shows Europeans prefer environmentally-friendly seafood
In the first-ever poll of European consumers, supermarkets, chefs and restaurateurs on attitudes toward seafood and the ocean, 79% said that the environmental impact of seafood is an important factor in their purchasing decisions....... The new study, commissioned by the Seafood Choices Alliance in partnership with Greenpeace, the Marine Conservation Society, WWF and the North Sea Foundation, rev...UC Santa Barbara researcher tapped by Europeans for design of instrument to test soil on Mars
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) The European Space Agency (ESA) announced today support of a new program that will include development of an instrument for testing deep soil samples on Mars in a European mission called ExoMars. A researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara will direct the development of the instrument.... ... "We are very excited about this," said Luann Becker, research sc...Biologists discover why 10% of Europeans are safe from HIV infection
LIVERPOOL, UK 9 March 2005: Biologists at the University of Liverpool have discovered how the plagues of the Middle Ages have made around 10% of Europeans resistant to HIV....... Scientists have known for some time that these individuals carry a genetic mutation (known as CCR5-32) that prevents the virus from entering the cells of the immune system but have been unable to account for the high le...