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DNA Study Clarifies How Polar Bears and Brown Bears Are Related
March 14, 2013 A new genetic study of polar bears and brown bears upends prevailing ideas about the evolutionary history of the two ... > full storyMore: -
Strange Spaghetti-Shaped Creature Is Missing Link: Discovery Pushes Fossil Record Back 200 Million Years
March 13, 2013 Canada's 505 million year-old Burgess Shale fossil beds, located in Yoho National Park, have yielded yet another major scientific discovery -- this time with the unearthing of a strange ... > full storyMore: -
Untangling Life's Origins
March 11, 2013 Researchers have been using bioinformatics techniques to probe the world of proteins for answers to questions about the origins of ... > full story -
Genetic Study of House Dust Mites Demonstrates Reversible Evolution
March 8, 2013 In evolutionary biology, Dollo's law states that evolution is unidirectional and irreversible. But this "law" is not universally accepted and is the topic of heated debate among biologists. Now a ... > full story -
Light Shed on Ancient Origin of Life
March 7, 2013 Researchers discovered important genetic clues about the history of microorganisms called archaea and the origins of life itself in the first ever study of its kind. Results of their study shed light ... > full story -
Human Y Chromosome Much Older Than Previously Thought
March 5, 2013 The discovery and analysis of an extremely rare African American Y chromosome push back the time of the most recent common ancestor for the Y chromosome lineage tree to 338,000 years ago. This time ... > full story -
Ancient DNA Solves 320-Year-Old Mystery: Origins of Now Extinct Falkland Islands Wolf
March 5, 2013 Researchers have found the answer to one of natural history's most intriguing puzzles -- the origins of the now extinct Falkland Islands wolf and how it came to be the only land-based mammal on the ... > full story -
How Did Early Primordial Cells Evolve?
February 28, 2013 New research on bacteria examines how primordial cells could have evolved without protein machinery or cell walls. While the vast majority of bacteria have cell walls, many bacteria can switch to a ... > full story -
Louse Genetics Offer Clues on Human Migrations
February 27, 2013 A new genetic analysis of human lice from across the world sheds light on the global spread of these parasites, their potential for disease transmission and insecticide ... > full story -
Homeric Epics Were Written in 762 BCE, Give or Take, New Study Suggests
February 27, 2013 One of literature's oldest mysteries is a step closer to being solved. A new study dates Homer's The Iliad to 762 BCE and adds a quantitative means of testing ideas about history by analyzing the ... > full story
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