Planningfor SIAsprovideskeydemographicdata – “finding” childreninremotevillagesandhouseholdsfor the first time, and "mapping" theirlocationfor futurehealthservices.
"Coupled with recent genetic data, our finding indicates that the Atlantic population -- and perhaps the world population -- are connected and may constitute a single population, " Skomal said.
One of the four, dubbed KOI 172.02, is a mere 1.5 times the size of the Earth and around a star like our own Sun - perhaps as near as the current data allow to finding an "Earth 2.0".