Scientific progress has transformed Darwin’s simple evolutionary tree of life into a bush with a myriad of branches, representing phylogenetic relationships. Now the research of Dartmouth’s molecular palaeobiologist Kevin Peterson is telling us that the branches may all be in the wrong places.
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Professors Jason Moore and Mukul Sharma assert that a high-velocity comet - not an asteroid - led to the demise of the dinosaurs.
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Dartmouth professors Frank Magilligan and Carl Renshaw are collaborating to understand the effects of Hurrican Irene on stream channel erosion and its repercussions on the land and the people.
[more]In a New York Times story about research on a hydrozoan known as the “immortal jellyfish,” Dartmouth’s Kevin Peterson, associate professor of biological sciences and adjunct professor of earth sciences, says there is a “shocking amount of genetic similarity between jellyfish and human beings.” The genetic similarities, Peterson tells the Times, may have implications for medicine, especially in terms of longevity and cancer research.
[more]Joseph Blumberg Many of us felt it and more even heard the rumbling. At approximately 7:12 p.m. last evening (Tuesday, October 16), the ground shook throughout New England. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the epicenter of the 4.6 magnitude quake was in southwest Maine, three miles west of Hollis Center, originating at a depth of about five kilometers. The USGS initially gave the earthquake a 4.6-magnitude rating and later downgraded it to 4.0.
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