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Insect Biodiversity in Amazon May Be Result of Ice Age Climate Change And Ancient Flooding, Not River Barriers
Ice age climate change and
ancient flooding -- but not
barriers created by rivers
-- may have promoted the
evolution of new insect
... > full story
Brain Morphology Of Homo Liujiang Cranium Fossil Detailed With 3-D CT Scan
High-resolution industrial
computed tomography was used
to scan the Homo Liujiang
cranium fossil, and the
three-dimensional virtual
... > full story
Glimpses Of Earliest Forms Of Life On Earth: Remnant Of Ancient 'RNA World' Discovered
Some bacterial cells can
swim, morph into new forms
and even become dangerously
virulent -- all without
initial involvement of DNA.
... > full story
Simple Life Form May Have Existed 700 Million Years Earlier Than Previously Thought
The accepted timeframe for
the beginnings of life on
Earth is now being
questioned, after scientists
found a key indicator to the
... > full story
- Insect Biodiversity in Amazon May Be Result of Ice Age Climate Change And Ancient Flooding, Not River Barriers
- Brain Morphology Of Homo Liujiang Cranium Fossil Detailed With 3-D CT Scan
- Glimpses Of Earliest Forms Of Life On Earth: Remnant Of Ancient 'RNA World' Discovered
- Simple Life Form May Have Existed 700 Million Years Earlier Than Previously Thought
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New Evidence Of Battle Between Humans And Ancient Virus
July 23, 2008 — Human ancestors fought back against an ancient retrovirus with a defense mechanism that our bodies still use today. Evidence of this battle has been preserved in our DNA for millions of ... > full story -
Natural Selection May Not Produce The Best Organisms
July 21, 2008 — "Survival of the fittest" is the catch phrase of evolution by natural selection. While natural selection favors the most fit organisms around, evolutionary biologists have long wondered whether this ... > full story -
Excavated Jericho Bones May Help Israeli-Palestinian-German Team Combat Tuberculosis
July 15, 2008 — Six-thousand year old bones excavated in Jericho may help a joint Israeli-Palestinian-German research group combat tuberculosis. The bones, which were all excavated between 50 and 70 years ago, will ... > full story -
Evolutionary Origin Of Mammalian Gene Regulation Is Over 150 Million Years Old
July 3, 2008 — Scientists have found that a complex, highly conserved and extremely important mechanism of controlling genes is over 150 million years old. The findings have provided new insights into the evolution ... > full story -
New Evidence That Ancient Choanoflagellates' Form Evolutionary Link Between Single-celled And Multi-celled Organisms
July 3, 2008 — What do humans and single-celled choanoflagellates have in common? More than you'd think. New research into the choanoflagellate genome shows these ancient organisms have similar levels of proteins ... > full story -
Huge Genome-scale Phylogenetic Study Of Birds Rewrites Evolutionary Tree-of-life
June 27, 2008 — The largest ever study of bird genetics redraws the avian evolutionary tree, challenges current classifications, alters our understanding of avian evolution, and provides a resource for future ... > full story -
Evolutionarily Preserved Signature Found In The Primate Brain
June 24, 2008 — Researchers have determined that there are hundreds of biological differences between the sexes when it comes to gene expression in the cerebral cortex of humans and other primates. These findings ... > full story -
Scientists Fix Bugs In Our Understanding Of Evolution
June 24, 2008 — What makes a human different from a chimp? Researchers have come one important step closer to answering such evolutionary questions correctly. In the current issue of Science they uncover systematic ... > full story -
Heritage Of A Deadly Disease Pinpointed With Help From Iceland's Genealogical Database
June 23, 2008 — Scientists have used Iceland's genealogical database to trace the ancestors of patients suffering from hereditary cystatin C amyloid angiopathy. Analysis shows that the deadly mutation in the ... > full story -
Sea's Ebb And Flow Drive World's Big Extinction Events, Study Suggests
June 16, 2008 — If you are curious about Earth's periodic mass extinction events such as the sudden demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, you might consider crashing asteroids and sky-darkening super ... > full story
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