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This was my mom, I loved her more than anything in the world, she was a single mom but also my best friend.
She passed away this past November 20th after fighting cancer twice and being ran over by a car, she was diagnosed cancer a third time, this one time it was spread through all her body and there was nothing to do.
For months my aunt and I took care of having her as comfortable as we could, your donations helped greatly since she has no health insurance.
Now we have left about 9000 pesos of debt between the funerary services and the rent of the medical equipment she needed and the nurse attention. Besides I got 2 weeks of unpaid leave to deal with my loss, so at the moment I have no income and I won’t have until the end of this month.
Any help for our debts and towards rent and food would be greatly appreciated, thank you so much also for all the loving messages you have been sending me, they mean so much.
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Thank you all for your continuous support during this.
We just found out there’s a bedbug infestation in my apartment possibly brought in one the suitcases from my mom’s town and I have to pay to get rid of that too, I have to be out of my house for a few days and pay about 2000 pesos besides the rent for the fumigation, please, I’m terrified of being homeless again, I’m in desperate need of help
A new study shows that the common raven is anything but commonplace in its evolution.
Using DNA samples taken from ravens for nearly twenty years, the study provides evidence that common ravens on the western coast of North America have split into three genetically distinct groups. What’s more, two of these lineages appear to be in the process of melding back into one, scientists report Thursday in the journal Nature Communications.
For a long time, we’ve tended to think of the evolution of species as a branching tree, with new species splitting off as their own branches, says Anna Kearns, an evolutionary biologist at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute.
“You see a split and then you see another split, and then you see another split, but you rarely see those two branches that are split come back together again,” says Kearns, who led the new study.
But occasionally, the branches of a family tree do merge back together, and two lineages—or groups that were on their way to becoming separate species—become one. Scientists call this “reticulate evolution,” says Kearns, and it’s been seen in only a handful of other species, including finches and two kinds of fish.
