1. Discovery Challenges Finding of a Separate Human Species

Comment #142087 by GrandsonOfMonkey on March 12, 2008 at 1:40 am

What exactly is a separate human species ?
The modern trend in taxonomy is to consider populations as separate species if there are minute physical differences and if there is evidence of assortive mating (as opposed to hybrid infertility).
How many extant species of humans are there ?

2. US scientists close to creating artificial life: study

Comment #115873 by GrandsonOfMonkey on January 25, 2008 at 12:58 am

So if it escapes from the lab we can call it Venterial Disease.