Dating earliest life

Your earliest memory may be earlier than you think: prospective studies of children's dating of earliest childhood memories.

Theories of childhood amnesia and autobiographical memory development have been based on the assumption that the age estimates of earliest childhood memories are generally accurate, with an average age of 3.5 years among adults. It is also commonly believed that early memories will by default become inaccessible later on and this eventually results in childhood amnesia. These assumptions were e...

Editorial: Dating the Tree of Life

Hyperthermophily and the origin and earliest evolution of life.

The possibility of a high-temperature origin of life has gained support based on indirect evidence of a hot, early Earth and on the basal position of hyperthermophilic organisms in rRNA-based phylogenies. However, although the availability of more than 80 completely sequenced cellular genomes has led to the identification of hyperthermophilic-specific traits, such as a trend towards smaller gen...

How Public Is My Private Life?: Privacy in Online Dating

Online dating services let users expand their dating pool beyond their social network and specify important characteristics of potential partners. To assess compatibility, users share personal information — e.g., identifying details or sensitive opinions about sexual preferences or worldviews — in profiles or in one-on-one communication. Thus, participating in online dating poses inherent priva...

Experimental Methods of Antiquities Dating

Archaeological researches have been started as an interdisciplinary approach in the field of cultural heritage sciences (especially archaeology as an original field) for more than half a century. It has gathered together the researchers of different fields of human sciences, basic sciences, engineering and art according to their interests in archaeological findings and curiosity in solving huma...