Save
Email
Print
Share
RSSStay up to date!
Get all of ScienceDaily's Charles Darwin in the headlines automatically delivered to you every day by subscribing for free via:
Browse News Stories
49 to 60 of 1,022 stories (134 over past year)
view headlines only
-
Jumping Gene's Preferred Targets May Influence Genome Evolution
September 6, 2011 — Our genetic blueprint contains numerous entities known as transposons, which have the ability to move from place to place on the chromosomes within a cell. An astounding 50 percent of human DNA ... > full story -
Ancient Humans Were Mixing It Up: Anatomically Modern Humans Interbred With More Archaic Hominin Forms While in Africa
September 5, 2011 — Anatomically modern humans interbred with more archaic hominin forms even before they migrated out of Africa, a team of researchers has found. The discovery suggests genetic exchange with their more ... > full storyMore: -
Mystery of Disappearing Bird Digit Solved?
September 4, 2011 — What is the origin of digits in birds? The question has long puzzled evolutionary biologists. Using genomic analysis, researchers have now solved a key part of this ... > full story -
First Lizard Genome Sequenced: Green Anole Lizard's Genome Sheds Light on Vertebrate Evolution
August 31, 2011 — The green anole lizard is an agile and active creature, and so are elements of its genome. This genomic agility and other new clues have emerged from the full sequencing of the lizard's genome and ... > full story -
From Mild-Mannered to Killer: Study Explains Plague's Rapid Evolution and Sheds Light on Fighting Deadly Diseases
August 29, 2011 — How did a bacterium that causes mild stomach irritation rapidly evolve into a deadly assassin responsible for the most devastating pandemics in human history? New DNA sequencing techniques reveal how ... > full story -
How an 'Evolutionary Playground' Brings Plant Genes Together
August 29, 2011 — Plants produce a vast array of natural products, many of which we find useful for making things such as drugs. Researchers have recently discovered that the genes producing two of these products in ... > full story -
Interbreeding Between Modern Humans and Evolutionary Cousins Gave Healthy Immune System Boost to Human Genome, Study Finds
August 25, 2011 — For a few years now, scientists have known that humans and their evolutionary cousins had some casual flings, but now it appears that these liaisons led to a more meaningful relationship. ... > full story -
Discovery of a 160-Million-Year-Old Fossil Represents a New Milestone in Early Mammal Evolution
August 24, 2011 — A remarkably well-preserved fossil discovered in northeast China provides new information about the earliest ancestors of most of today's mammal species -- the placental mammals. This fossil ... > full story -
Ancient 'Daddy Long Legs' Revealed in 3-D Models
August 23, 2011 — Two ancient types of harvestmen, or 'daddy long legs,' which skittered around forests more than 300 million years ago, are revealed in new three-dimensional virtual fossil ... > full story -
Ancient Wild Horses Help Unlock Past
August 23, 2011 — An international team of researchers has used ancient DNA to produce compelling evidence that the lack of genetic diversity in modern stallions is the result of the domestication process. The team ... > full story -
Not So Fast: Lasting Evolutionary Change Takes About One Million Years, Researchers Find
August 22, 2011 — In research that will help address a long-running debate and apparent contradiction between short- and long-term evolutionary change, scientists have discovered that although evolution is a constant ... > full story -
Yeast's Epic Journey 500 Years Ago Gave Rise to Lager Beer
August 22, 2011 — An international team of researchers believes it has identified the wild yeast that, in the age of sail, apparently traveled more than 7,000 miles to make a fortuitous microbial match that today ... > full story
Recommend this page on Facebook, Twitter,
and Google +1:
Other bookmarking and sharing tools:
Search ScienceDaily
Number of stories in archives: 114,456
more 
