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Flycatchers' Genomes Explain How One Species Became Two
October 24, 2012 — Just how new species are established is still one of the most central questions in biology. Biologists now describe how they mapped the genomes of the European pied flycatcher and the collared ... > full story -
Grandmas Made Humans Live Longer: Chimp Lifespan Evolves Into Human Longevity, Computer Simulation Shows
October 23, 2012 — Computer simulations provide new mathematical support for the "grandmother hypothesis" -- a famous theory that humans evolved longer adult lifespans than apes because grandmothers helped feed their ... > full story -
Technology Brings New Life to the Study of Diseases in Old Bones
October 22, 2012 — A new study has demonstrated that new technology that can analyze millions of gene sequences in a matter of seconds is an effective way to quickly and accurately identify diseases in ... > full story -
Fuller Picture of Human Expansion from Africa
October 22, 2012 — A comprehensive analysis of the anthropological and genetic history of humans' expansion out of Africa could lead to medical ... > full story -
Evolution of New Genes Captured
October 22, 2012 — Like job-seekers searching for a new position, living things sometimes have to pick up a new skill if they are going to succeed. Researchers have shown for the first time how living organisms do ... > full story -
Evolution: New Understandings of How Populations Change Over Time
October 19, 2012 — Since 1859, when Darwin’s classic work “On the Origin of Species” was published, we have known that populations change over the course of time. The ability to adapt to ... > full story -
Evolutionary Origins of Our Pretty Smile
October 17, 2012 — It takes both teeth and jaws to make a pretty smile, but the evolutionary origins of these parts of our anatomy have only just been discovered, thanks to a particle accelerator and a long dead ... > full story -
Scientists Identify Likely Origins of Vertebrate Air Breathing
October 16, 2012 — Scientists have identified what they think is the ancestral trait that allowed for the evolution of air breathing in ... > full story -
Evolution Mostly Driven by Brawn, Not Brains, Analysis Finds
October 15, 2012 — The most common measure of intelligence in animals, brain size relative to body size, may not be as dependent on evolutionary selection on the brain as previously thought, according to a new analysis ... > full story -
Early-Earth Cells Modeled to Show How First Life Forms Might Have Packaged RNA
October 14, 2012 — A chemical model that mimics a possible step in the formation of cellular life on Earth four-billion years ago has been developed. Chemists created primitive cell-like structures that they infused ... > full story
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