As a result of a global health campaign, polioviruses have almost been eradicated in many areas of the world but enterovirus 71 is closely related to poliovirus and was first detected in California in the 1960s. Since then the virus has spread across Asia, affecting mostly children and some adults. Serious cases of the disease can include neurological disorders such as meningitis, paralysis and encephalitis.
Can there be a genetic difference between progressives and conservatives? Certainly
we have had the discussion many times about studies, both sociological and biological, seeking to make the case that politics might be nature as well as nurture.
A new paper suggests that instead of some primates evolving in Africa and spreading out from there, they colonized it, likely from Asia. The search for data regarding the origins of man's earliest anthropoid ancestors is obviously one of the most hotly pursued subjects in paleontology.