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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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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 story

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  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
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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
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  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
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  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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