The Alien Arrivals Collection documents the arrival of more than 610,000 immigrants into the UK between the late 18th and early 20th centuries. The collection includes some of the earliest surviving records of immigrants recorded under the Aliens Act 1793. The records go online for the first time at Ancestry.co.uk
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A new study dismisses a beautifully preserved fossil’s usefulness, suggesting it is surprisingly uninformative about primate evolution
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Silverback female gorillas use sex as a tactic to thwart their rivals with even pregnant apes courting their male to stop other females conceiving. Diane Doran-Sheehy at Stony Brook University in New York says this kind of competitive behaviour may even help explain how humans evolved into a mostly monogamous species.
Apparently, the earliest adult milk drinkers came from central Europe and not from the sun-starved Scandinavian regions. Northern Europeans, unlike more than half the world’ s populations are highly lactose tolerant.
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A British plant biologist believes he has discovered why our brains stopped developing thousands of years ago and why we all have the potential to become geniuses. Read More Here
Over at The Loom, there is an interesting article ‘Tree or Trellis’ that takes another look at the ‘out of Africa’ theory for man’s history. Using DNA evidence the newer theory is that instead of one great migration, there were about three and at least once, there was movement back towards Africa.