Origin of Life News

Posted October 7, 2008:

• Mysterious Snippets Of DNA Withstand Eons Of Evolution

Posted October 2, 2008:

• Short RNAs Show A Long History: MicroRNAs Found In Animals That Appeared A Billion Years Ago

Posted September 23, 2008:

• 'Redesigned Hammer' That Forged Evolution Of Pregnancy In Mammals Found

Posted September 16, 2008:

• New Ant Species Discovered In The Amazon Likely Represents Oldest Living Lineage Of Ants

Posted September 13, 2008:

• Scientist Uncovers Miscalculation In Geological Undersea Record
• Computational Biochemist Uncovers A Molecular Clue To Evolution

Posted September 9, 2008:

• Childbirth Was Already Difficult For Neanderthals

Posted September 8, 2008:

• Trichoplax Genome Sequenced: 'Rosetta Stone' For Understanding Evolution

Posted September 7, 2008:

• Long-held Assumptions Of Flightless Bird Evolution Challenged By New Research

Posted September 5, 2008:

• DNA Shows That Last Woolly Mammoths Had North American Roots

Posted September 4, 2008:

• Molecular Evolution Is Echoed In Bat Ears

Posted September 2, 2008:

• Scientists Develop New Computational Method To Investigate Origin Of Life

Posted August 29, 2008:

• 'Pristine' Amazonian Region Hosted Large, Urban Civilization

Posted August 24, 2008:

• Exploding Chromosomes Fuel Research About Evolution Of Genetic Storage

Posted August 22, 2008:

• Manes, Trains And Antlers Explained: How Showy Male Traits Evolved
• Tracing Origins Of Critical Step In Animal Evolution: The Development Of Nerves

Posted August 19, 2008:

• Molecular Sleuths Track Evolution Through The Ribosome

Posted August 17, 2008:

• Surprising Details Of Evolution Of Protein Translation Revealed

Posted August 12, 2008:

• Survival Of The Fittest: Even Cancer Cells Follow The Laws Of Evolution

Posted August 8, 2008:

• Complete Neanderthal Mitochondrial Genome Sequenced From 38,000-year-old Bone

Posted August 5, 2008:

• Schizophrenia: Costly By-product Of Human Brain Evolution?

Posted July 30, 2008:

• Diamonds May Have Been Life's Best Friend On Primordial Earth
• 'Chicken And Chips' Theory Of Pacific Migration
• Bacteria Reveal Secret Of Adaptation At Evolution Canyon

Posted July 29, 2008:

• Insect Biodiversity In Amazon May Be Result Of Ice Age Climate Change And Ancient Flooding, Not River Barriers

Posted July 23, 2008:

• New Evidence Of Battle Between Humans And Ancient Virus

Posted July 21, 2008:

• Brain Morphology Of Homo Liujiang Cranium Fossil Detailed With 3-D CT Scan
• Natural Selection May Not Produce The Best Organisms

Posted July 18, 2008:

• Glimpses Of Earliest Forms Of Life On Earth: Remnant Of Ancient 'RNA World' Discovered

Posted July 15, 2008:

• Excavated Jericho Bones May Help Israeli-Palestinian-German Team Combat Tuberculosis

Posted July 8, 2008:

• Simple Life Form May Have Existed 700 Million Years Earlier Than Previously Thought

Posted July 3, 2008:

• Evolutionary Origin Of Mammalian Gene Regulation Is Over 150 Million Years Old
• New Evidence That Ancient Choanoflagellates' Form Evolutionary Link Between Single-celled And Multi-celled Organisms

Posted June 27, 2008:

• Huge Genome-scale Phylogenetic Study Of Birds Rewrites Evolutionary Tree-of-life

Posted June 24, 2008:

• Evolutionarily Preserved Signature Found In The Primate Brain
• Scientists Fix Bugs In Our Understanding Of Evolution

Posted June 23, 2008:

• Heritage Of A Deadly Disease Pinpointed With Help From Iceland's Genealogical Database

Posted June 16, 2008:

• Sea's Ebb And Flow Drive World's Big Extinction Events, Study Suggests

Posted June 13, 2008:

• Life's Raw Materials May Have Come From The Stars, Scientists Confirm

Posted June 12, 2008:

• Woolly Mammoth Gene Study Changes Extinction Theory

Posted June 6, 2008:

• New Way To Think About Earth's First Cells

Posted June 3, 2008:

• Evolution Of An Imprinted Domain In Mammals

Posted May 30, 2008:

• Altruism In Social Insects Is A Family Affair

Posted May 28, 2008:

• Authentic Viking DNA Retrieved From 1,000-year-old Skeletons

Posted May 26, 2008:

• New Research Forces U-turn In Population Migration Theory

Posted May 21, 2008:

• Ancient Amphibian: Debate Over Origin Of Frogs And Salamanders Settled With Discovery Of Missing Link

Posted May 18, 2008:

• New Tool To Understand Evolution Of Multi-domain Genes Developed
• Geneticists Trace The Evolution Of St. Louis Encephalitis

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