Author: Lia Paola Zambetti
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My Dog Speaks To Me With His Eyes – Evolution of Human/Dog Bonds
Puppy love – same as baby love? Yes, it seems so: “My dog talks to me with his/her eyes”- every dog owner on the planet says this. Now, for the first time, it seems that this well-known truth has a scientific basis. A group of Japanese researchers found that dogs indeed talk to us, in…
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Life – Evolved
What is a life form? Most of us, if asked, will think of an animal or a human being-in other words, a multicellular organism. However, life itself evolved in cells, single cells of various types that existed and propagated independently. What are, then, the factors that led cells to collaborate together and give rise to…
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Microbiota and us – we feed our bacteria even when we are sick!
There are good bacteria and bad bacteria. For millennia, we humans never made a distinction: bacteria were associated with diseases and death, no exception. It was known that we are carrying along a large assortment of microbes in our gut, but this was considered to be an evolutionary accident or a coincidence rather than a…