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To continue using our website and consent to the use of cookies, click away from this box or click 'Close' NASA video crushes 2012 Mayan apocalypse myth. Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have put out a new video to address false claims about the "Mayan apocalypse," a non-event that some people believe will bring the world to an end on Dec. 21.
In the video, which was posted online on March 7, Don Yeomans, head of the Near-Earth Objects Program Office at NASA/JPL, explains away many of the most frequently cited doomsday scenarios. [See video] Addressing the belief that the calendar used by the ancient Mayan civilization comes to a sudden end in December 2012, and that this will coincide with a cataclysmic, world-ending event, Yeomans said: "Their calendar does not end on December 21, 2012; it's just the end of the cycle and the beginning of a new one. It's just like on December 31, our calendar comes to an end, but a new calendar begins on January 1.
" 6 Insane Discoveries That Science Can't Explain. We like to feel superior to the people who lived centuries ago, what with their shitty mud huts and curing colds by drilling a hole in their skulls.
But we have to give them credit: They left behind some artifacts that have left the smartest of modern scientists scratching their heads. [1208.2686] Exploring scientists' working timetable: Do scientists often work overtime? The earliest split in modern humanity was 100,000 years ago. What's interesting is that as a result of this split, populations within the Khoisan group should about as much genetic diversity as the rest of humanity does combined.
And that's including every other genotype within Africa. Did fist fighting change the course of human evolution? Protective buttressing of the human fist and the evolution of hominin hands. + Author Affiliations ↵* Author for correspondence (carrier@biology.utah.edu) Received June 6, 2012.
Accepted September 24, 2012. The derived proportions of the human hand may provide supportive buttressing that protects the hand from injury when striking with a fist. The Loom. Your hands are, roughly speaking, 360 million years old.
Before then, they were fins, which your fishy ancestors used to swim through oceans and rivers. Once those fins sprouted digits, they could propel your salamander-like ancestors across dry land. Rediscovering Life. Notes and Commentaries Toward a Biology Worthy of Life Stephen L.
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