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Clément Gilbert est chercheur au laboratoire Ecologie et Biologie des interactions (CNRS / université de Poitiers). Avec Cédric Feschotte, professeur à l’université du Texas à Arlington, il a récemment publié un article dans Nature Reviews Genetics consacré aux virus endogènes, ces virus dont le génome est intégré pour tout ou partie dans le génome des espèces-hôtes (dont l'espèce humaine) et qui ouvrent une fascinante fenêtre sur l'évolution du monde viral. Des films comme Contagion ou des alertes médiatiques comme celle entourant la grippe aviaire ou la grippe A (H1N1) donnent au public la même image du virus pathogène et dangereux.
« Les humains sont apparentés aux virus »
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Pieces of the Human Evolutionary Puzzle: Who Was Australopithecus sediba? | Anthropology in Practice
Evolution :: News :: January 25, 2012 :: :: Email :: Print A new hypothesis holds that the natural selection produced the chimpanzee's nicer cousin in much the same way that humans bred dogs from wolves
Tame Theory: Did Bonobos Domesticate Themselves?
Late Bloomers: "New" Genes May Have Played a Role in Human Brain Evolution
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Human Ancestors Were Nearly All Vegetarians | Guest Blog
Paleolithic diets have become all the rage, but are they getting our ancestral diet all wrong? Right now, one half of all Americans are on a diet. The other half just gave up on their diets and are on a binge. Collectively, we are overweight, sick and struggling.
Alexander Joe/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Lee Berger with his son, Matthew, and fossils of Australopithecus sediba.
New Fossils May Redraw Human Ancestry - NYTimes.com
Gains in DNA Are Speeding Research Into Human Origins
Another paper , by Mathias Currat and Laurent Excoffier, two Swiss geneticists, suggests that breeding between Neanderthals and modern humans was rare.
Earliest Homo Erectus Tools Found in Kenya
A new geological study, being reported Thursday in the journal Nature, showed that tools from a site near Lake Turkana in Kenya were made about 1.76 million years ago, the earliest of their ilk found so far.courses
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Humans and Neanderthals had sex, but not very often | Not Exactly Rocket Science
Tens of thousands of years ago, our ancestors spread across the world, having sex with Neanderthals, Denisovans and other groups of ancient humans as they went. Today, our genes testify to these prehistoric liaisons. Last year, when the Neanderthal genome was finally sequenced, it emerged that everyone outside of African can trace 1 and 4 percent of their DNA from Neanderthals.web
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