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2009十大科学发现(国外英语资料)Times 20 thousand and 90 major scientific discoveries: long pass material breakthrough time: 2009-12-10 10:51 source: Sina TechnologyTime magazine Tuesday selected the ten major scientific discoveries in 2009, the oldest human ancestor Addie found at the top of the list, the moon found water, Large Hadron Collider restart list.1. the oldest human ancestor, AddieAddie is the oldest human skeleton fossil ever discovered before. Her fingers are long, 4 feet tall (about 1.21 meters), and his head is not as big as chimpanzees head. Facing such a woman, it is difficult for us to have a feeling of liking. After more than 100 pieces together in mosaic in Ethiopia found fossils, scientists got the female adiler ramidus (Addie) of the skeleton. Addie lived 4 million 400 thousand years ago and was not known until 1992, when her fossil bones were first discovered.After 17 years of research, a team of scientists from the University of California at Berkeleys Tim White leadership in October in science magazine published a series of articles, published a comprehensive analysis of Addie. According to their research, Addie was not similar to chimpanzee, although originally considered to be the offspring of the last common ancestor of man and chimpanzee. In addition, although living in the forest areas, but Addie has the ability to walk on the biped. The discovery undermined the importance of open grasslands for human evolution into two legged walks.2. break the human genomeThe human genome project, which began 10 years ago, raises the expectation that understanding all human genetic influences will become possible. The link between genes and disease is a very complex problem that is more complex than we think. With the development of the research, a new discipline has emerged in the field of gene signaling research, that is epigenetics (also known as epigenetics).Epigenetics believes that environmental influences can alter gene behavior and that changes that occur