Monday, 5 September 2011

science related travel and places,eastern province,kenya

The eastern shore of lake Turkana,which lies within  the eastern province is where  lots of hominid fossils(australopithecus,homo habilis and homo erectus) as well as the stone tools made by the hominids have been found at places like koobi Fora.
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(The Turkanas after those the lake is named have the highest mitochondrial DNA variations in the world, possibly nearest to the mitochondrial Eve

Science related travel and places,Rift valley province,kenya

In the eastern half of this province along the western side of lake turkana(formerly known as lake rudolf)(the other side of lake turkana is in Eastern province), there are sites where
Acheulian tools have been found  that are over a million years old.
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Saturday, 23 April 2011

science related travel and places,cambridgeshire,england,uk

Cambridge university is where james watson and francis crick discovered the double helix structure of dna in 1953 which they also told the patron of the eagle pub in bene't street,they told  the pub goers one day in 1953 that they had discovered the secret of life.

Sunday, 26 December 2010

science related travel and places,Yunnan,china

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A hillside in Luoping County is the location where scientists have discovered over 20,000 fossils of life that came into existance after the Permian era extinction that saw most land and sea species lost in what  is called `the great dying'.
Fossils include ammonites,plankton,ichtysaurs and saurichthyses etc

Over in Chengjiang county,there are also fossils bed from  the cambrian era.
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Saturday, 30 October 2010

science related travel and places,canterbury region,new zealand

There is the St John Observatory near lake tekapo,where the stars can be oberved.

Science related travel and places,Coquimbo region,chile

The European Extremely Large Telescope,the world's largest telescopes, is located in the cerro armazones area.

Sunday, 17 October 2010