von Thomas Fester | Apr. 9, 2017 | Ecology, Natural History, Selected topic
Ecology Plants are fascinating and beautiful – and notoriously difficult to model for 3D-animation. So I am proud to provide a sufficiently sophisticated presentation of some typical plants from a German meadow. While the sequence/image may be o.k. from a...
von Thomas Fester | Feb. 4, 2017 | Anthropology, Molecular Medicine, Natural History, News
Sexual relations between modern humans and Neanderthals Sexual relations and resulting gene transfer between Neanderthals and modern humans have been reported repeatedly. A new study from Pimenoff and colleagues now suggests that we not only inherited some of their...
von Thomas Fester | Jan. 30, 2017 | Climate Change, Natural History, News
How are ancient precipitation rates measured? The Amazon rainforest is a critical hotspot for biodiversity and as a carbon sink. How will the rainforest react to shifts in temperature and precipitation in the wake of climate change? To answer such questions Wang and...
von Thomas Fester | Dez. 17, 2016 | Ecology, Extraterrestrial life, Fiction, Natural History
Prevalence of subsurface oceans in the solar system and beyond While blue jewels like Earth are rare in space, many celestial bodies possess subsurface oceans. Such oceans may be heated by internal planetary heat or by interaction with a larger planetary bodiy (tidal...
von Thomas Fester | Nov. 24, 2016 | Anthropology, Molecular Medicine, Natural History, News
Neanderthal genes support European immune systems Until very recently bacterial and viral infections killed large parts of human populations. This made them important factors driving human evolution in general and evolution of the human immune system in particular. In...
von Thomas Fester | Nov. 24, 2016 | Biochemistry, Natural History, News, Omics
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