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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 -
Moa's Ark: Why the Female Giant Moa Was About Twice the Size of the Male
April 9, 2013 — The evolutionary reason for the massive difference in size between male and female giant moa -- the extinct giant birds of New Zealand -- has been revealed for the first ... > full story -
How Life May Have First Emerged on Earth: Foldable Proteins in a High-Salt Environment
April 5, 2013 — Scientists may be a step closer to understanding how life first emerged on Earth billions of years ago. Researchers have produced data supporting the idea that 10 amino acids believed to exist on ... > full story -
Diversification in Ancient Tadpole Shrimps Challenges the Term 'Living Fossil'
April 2, 2013 — The term 'living fossil' has a controversial history. For decades, scientists have argued about its usefulness as it appears to suggest that some organisms have stopped evolving. New research has now ... > full story -
Getting Under the Shell of the Turtle Genome
March 28, 2013 — The genome of the western painted turtle, one of the most widespread, abundant and well-studied turtles in the world, has been sequenced. The data show that, like turtles themselves, the rate of ... > full storyMore: -
Early Prehistoric Marine Reptiles: Evidence of a Placodont That Originated in Europe
March 27, 2013 — Placodonts were among the first marine reptiles. With their trademark crushing teeth, they fed on shellfish and crustaceans. However, when and where these highly specialized marine reptiles ... > full story -
Controversial Worm Keeps Its Position as Progenitor of Humankind
March 27, 2013 — Researchers are arguing about whether or not the Xenoturbella bocki worm is the progenitor of humankind. But new studies indicate that this is actually the ... > full story -
First Migration from Africa Less Than 95,000 Years Ago: Ancient Hunter-Gatherer DNA Challenges Theory of Early out-of-Africa Migrations
March 22, 2013 — Recent measurements of the rate at which children show DNA changes not seen in their parents -- the "mutation rate" -- have challenged views about major dates in human evolution. In particular these ... > full story
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