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April 6, 2025
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Apr. 3, 2025 Scientists have helped to construct a detailed timeline for bacterial evolution, suggesting some bacteria used oxygen long before evolving the ability to produce it through ...
Apr. 3, 2025 Since Darwin's time, the phenomenon known as flower constancy -- i.e., where insects consistently visit the same flower type even when many others are also present -- has been understood as a passive ...
Apr. 2, 2025 An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid savanna-like environment. By analyzing the DNA of two 7,000-year-old ...
Mar. 31, 2025 Researchers have uncovered a complete Quina technological system in the Longtan site in southwest China. The discovery challenges the widely held perception that the Middle Paleolithic period was ...
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Mar. 31, 2025 A study presents a striking example of cooperative organization among cells as a potential force in the evolution of multicellular life. The study is ...
Mar. 26, 2025 Scientists uncovered how whole-genome duplication emerges and remains stable over thousands of generations of evolution in the ...
Mar. 26, 2025 Two specific genes that evolve exclusively in humans jointly influence the development of the cerebrum. Researchers have provided evidence that these genes contribute together to the evolutionary ...
Mar. 26, 2025 New research sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the early years of rocky planets. ...
Mar. 25, 2025 Life needs sufficient phosphorus. However, the element is scarce, not only today but also at the time of the origin of life. So where was there sufficient phosphorus four billion years ago for life ...
Mar. 25, 2025 Enzymes originally evolved in high-temperature environments and later adapted to lower temperatures as Earth cooled. Scientists discovered that a key shift in enzyme function occurred over ...
Mar. 21, 2025 Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and ...
Mar. 17, 2025 Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources. But how did the production of stone tools -- called 'knapping' -- start? ...
Mar. 20, 2025 Feathers, essential for thermoregulation, flight, and communication in birds, originate from simple appendages known as proto-feathers, which were present in certain dinosaurs.By studying embryonic ...
Mar. 18, 2025 Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the ...
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Mar. 18, 2025 Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ...
Mar. 17, 2025 The only iguanas outside the Americas, Fiji iguanas are an enigma. A new genetic analysis shows that they are most closely related to the North American desert iguana, having separated about 34 ...
Mar. 13, 2025 A recent study has reclassified the species commonly known as the Javan rhinoceros, proposing a more precise scientific name: Eurhinoceros sondaicus. The research highlights key differences in body ...
Mar. 10, 2025 Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to grasses to trees, plants are our food, fodder and timber. All this diversity emerged from an algal ancestor that ...
Feb. 27, 2025 Researchers examined dozens of bird species in museum collections looking for differences in the feathers and bodies between birds that can fly and birds that can't. They found that when birds ...
Feb. 26, 2025 It's not what you do, it's how readily you do it. Rapid evolutionary change might have more to do with how easily a key innovation can be gained or lost rather than with the innovation ...
Feb. 25, 2025 The efficient architecture of our joints, which allows our skeletons to be flexible and sturdy, originated among our most ancient jawed fish ancestors, according to a new ...
Feb. 25, 2025 A new study suggests that Neanderthals experienced a dramatic loss of genetic variation during the course of their evolution, foreshadowing their eventual extinction. Examination of semicircular ...
Feb. 24, 2025 New analysis of ancient fossilized rocks known as stromatolites, preserved in southern Zimbabwe, suggests strong links to hydrothermal nutrient recycling, 'meaning that early life may in part ...
Feb. 14, 2025 Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on ...
Feb. 13, 2025 The field of evolution examines how organisms adapt to their environments over generations, but what about the evolution of evolution ...
Feb. 13, 2025 New research has revealed that birds, reptiles, and mammals have developed complex brain circuits independently, despite sharing a common ancestor. These findings challenge the traditional view of ...
Feb. 10, 2025 Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion of the genomic era shows that gene loss and simplification is a much more ...
Feb. 5, 2025 Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial ...
Feb. 5, 2025 Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Researchers contribute a new piece to this puzzle. They analyzed ancient DNA from 435 individuals from archaeological sites across Eurasia ...
Feb. 3, 2025 New work offers insight into how early life adapted from a low-oxygen atmosphere to the one that exists ...
Jan. 26, 2025 Japan Sea element plants are generally thought to have evolved from closely related species on the Pacific side. Camellia japonica and Camellia rusticana were also believed to follow this pattern. ...
Jan. 24, 2025 An international research team has discovered various mechanisms in asexual mites that generate genetic diversity and thus ensure ...
Jan. 23, 2025 130 years after a fungus-eating plant received its name, a researcher has uncovered the purpose of the structure that inspired its name -- revealing a novel mechanism by which plants ensure ...
Jan. 23, 2025 A new computational tool improves the analysis of genetic data, making it easier and faster to study the evolutionary relationships between ...
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- Humans Inherited Their Flexible Joints from the Earliest Jawed Fish
- New Study Reveals Neanderthals Experienced Population Crash 110,000 Years Ago
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- Evolution, Evolution, Evolution: How Evolution Got So Good at Evolving
- Birds Have Developed Complex Brains Independently from Mammals
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- Meteorite Discovery Challenges Long-Held Theories on Earth's Missing Elements
- Missing Link in Indo-European Languages' History Found
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- Plant's Name-Giving Feature Found to Be New Offspring-Ensuring Method
- Streamlining Genetic Analysis for Phylogenetic Studies
- Solving the Evolutionary Puzzle of Polyploidy: How Genome Duplication Shapes Adaptation
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- Coyote Genes May Show Urban Evolution at Work
- Protein Shapes Can Help Untangle Life's Ancient History
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- An Earful of Gill: Evolutionary Origin of the Mammalian Outer Ear
- The Extreme Teeth of Sabre-Toothed Predators Were 'optimal' For Biting Into Prey
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- Biological Diversity Is Not Just the Result of Genes
- New Research Unlocks Jaw-Dropping Evolution of Lizards and Snakes
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- Chimpanzees Perform the Same Complex Behaviors That Have Brought Humans Success
- DNA of 1,000 Year-Old Maize Sheds Light on Origins of Globally Important Food Crop
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- How Playing Songs to Darwin's Finches Helped Biologists Confirm Link Between Environment and the Emergence of New Species
- Early Human Species Benefited from Food Diversity in Steep Mountainous Terrain
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- Brazilian Fossils Reveal Jaw-Dropping Discovery in Mammal Evolution
- World's Oldest Cheese Reveals Origins of Kefir
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- Creature the Size of a Dust Grain Found Hiding in California's Mono Lake
- How Baleen Whales Have Adapted Over the Past 50 Million Years
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- Next Time You Beat a Virus, Thank Your Microbial Ancestors
- Life from a Drop of Rain: New Research Suggests Rainwater Helped Form the First Protocell Walls
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- Sea Level Changes Shaped Early Life on Earth, Fossil Study Reveals
- What Gave the First Molecules Their Stability?
- Half a Billion-Year-Old Spiny Slug Reveals the Origins of Mollusks
- Demographics of North African Human Populations Unravelled Using Genomic Data and Artificial Intelligence