Every Friday at Nothing in Biology Makes Sense! our contributors pass around links to new scientific results, or science-y news, or videos of adorable wildlife, that they’re most likely to bring up while waiting in line for a latte.
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To get things started, CJ found a depressing study (depending on your perspective anyway) about how your attitude can affect your health. It’s not what you would expect a study to find, but there are additional conflicting studies so take it as you will. However, she follows it up with another article about how the privatization of space flight has a long way to go before we can all reach for the stars.
From Amy, a new variant in the African-American Y-chromosome leads to the speculation on how long ago the common ancestor of modern humans existed and/or whether there was potential interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans.
To follow that up, Jeremy found an interesting video that shows a morphing of the faces of human ancestry.
From Sarah, a rather fun blog post on Scientific American on how one individual looked for answers to questions and found lots of information, but failed to answer the original question.
Finally, to return to the spring break theme, the CDC reports in its weekly grand rounds about multi-drug resistant gonorrhea.
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