"Is it possible to initiate a terraforming process on Mars that may one day make it more hospitable to the development of terrestrial ecosystems?"
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Update on the Human-Chimpanzee Divergence
Researchers from NAI’s Pennsylvania State University Lead Team and their colleagues at Arizona State University published this week in PNAS their research constraining the divergence of humans and chimpanzees. Using the largest data set yet and improved computational methods for the molecular clock calculations, the study narrows the gap from between 3 and 13 million years ago to between 5 and 7 million years ago.
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