How the Great Depression shaped people’s DNA

Click Here to Read: How the Great Depression shaped people’s DNA: Epigenetics study finds that children born during the historic recession have markers of accelerated ageing later in life by Freda Kreier on the Nature website on November 21, 2022.

Unemployed men queued outside a depression soup kitchen opened in Chicago by Al Capone, 1931 Image: National Archives at College Park  Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossils Upend Conventional Wisdom about Evolution of Human Bipedalism

Click Here to Read: Fossils Upend Conventional Wisdom about Evolution of Human Bipedalism For most of human evolution, multiple species with different ways of walking upright coexisted By Jeremy DeSilva in the Scientific American issue of November 1, 2022.

Cast of the “Laetoli footprints” — the earliest known human footprints in the world, on display in the Hall of Human Origins in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. These footprints are those of Australopithecus afarensis. Image: Tim Evanson.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

 

Drought reveals 113 million-year-old dinosaur tracks in Texas:

Click Here to Read: Drought reveals 113 million-year-old dinosaur tracks in Texas: Prints mostly left by a creature that stood 15 feet tall, weighed 7 tons and roamed the area 113 million years ago have emerged as the Paluxy River has disappeared By Tim Stelloh on the NBC News website on Aug. 23, 2022. 
Acrocanthosaurus atokensis, Early Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) of North America.  Image: DiBgd  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.