DNA links 'Stone Age' tribe to first humans

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Researchers at Cambridge University, England, have identified DNA evidence connecting the inhabitants of the remote Andaman Islands with the first anatomically modern humans to spread out across Asia. The DNA evidence, obtained from locks of hair taken from the Andamanese just after they were first contacted, shows that the Andamanese do not share their pattern of inheritance with other Asians. Experts believe that the Andamanese are the descendants of the earliest migrations of Homo sapiens out of Africa.

Research, Demographic aspects, Human evolution, Andaman Islands

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The uranium minefield

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Issues concerning the possible impact on human health of depleted uranium weapons used in the Balkans conflict and the Gulf war are discussed. Many scientists question claims that depleted uranium has caused illnesses including leukaemia and respiratory disease.

Iraq, Health aspects, Balkan Peninsula, Uranium, Chemical weapons

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Boy from Bingley 'lobbed intellectual grenades' at science

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Professor Sir Fred Hoyle, who has died at the age of 86, was one of the first figures of popular science. He undertook pioneering work in cosmology and presented radical theories on microbe attacks on the Earth from other planets.

Biography, Astronomers, Hoyle, Fred

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