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From Ocean to Land: The Fishy Origins of Our Hips
New research has revealed
that the evolution of the
complex, weight-bearing hips
of walking animals from the
basic hips of fish was a
much simpler process than
... > full story
Productivity Increases With Species Diversity, Just as Darwin Predicted
Environments containing
species that are distantly
related to one another are
more productive than those
containing closely related
... > full story
3-D Simulation Shows How Form of Complex Organs Evolves by Natural Selection
Researchers have developed
the first three-dimensional
simulation of the evolution
of morphology by integrating
the mechanisms of genetic re ... > full story
Fossil of Great Ape Sheds Light on Evolution
An integrative anatomy
expert says the shape of an
11.8-million-year-old
specimen's pelvis indicates
that it lived near the
beginning of the great ape
... > full story
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Computer Scientists Suggest New Spin on Origins of Evolvability: Competition to Survive Not Necessary?
April 26, 2013 — Scientists have long observed that species seem to have become increasingly capable of evolving in response to changes in the environment. But computer science researchers now say that the popular ... > full story -
As People Live Longer and Reproduce Less, Natural Selection Keeps Up
April 25, 2013 — In many places around the world, people are living longer and are having fewer children. But that's not all. A study of people living in rural Gambia shows that this modern-day "demographic ... > full story -
Ancient DNA Reveals Europe's Dynamic Genetic History
April 23, 2013 — Ancient DNA recovered from a series of skeletons in central Germany up to 7,500 years old has been used to reconstruct the first detailed genetic history of modern ... > full story -
Surprising New Function for Small RNAs in Evolution
April 19, 2013 — Scientists have discovered a completely new mechanism by which evolution can change the appearance of an organism. The researchers found that the number of hairs on flies’ legs varies according ... > full story -
Evolving Genes Lead to Evolving Genes: Selection in European Populations of Genes Regulated by FOXP2
April 18, 2013 — Researchers have designed a method that can universally test for evolutionary adaption, or positive (Darwinian) selection, in any chosen set of genes, using re-sequencing data such as that generated ... > full story -
Coelacanth Genome Surfaces: Unexpected Insights from a Fish With a 300-Million-Year-Old Fossil Record
April 17, 2013 — An international team of researchers has decoded the genome of the African coelacanth. The species was once thought to be extinct, but a living coelacanth was discovered off the African coast in ... > full storyMore: -
Towards the Origin of America's First Settlers
April 17, 2013 — The international scientific community faces the exciting challenge of discovering the origin of America's first settlers. A new publication shapes some alternatives to the hypothesis of a single ... > full story -
Findings Confirm Early South African Hominins
April 15, 2013 — Close examination of the lower jawbone, teeth and skeleton of the hominid species Australopithecus sediba proves conclusively that it is uniquely different from a closely related species, ... > full story -
Alternative Way to Explain Life's Complexity Proposed
April 12, 2013 — Evolution skeptics argue that some biological structures, like the eye, are too complex for natural selection to explain. Biologists have proposed various ways that so-called "irreducibly complex" ... > full story -
Unusual Anal Fin Offers New Insight Into Evolution
April 10, 2013 — An unusual fossil fish that has fins behind its anus could have implications for human ... > full story
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