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Origin of Life: Hypothesis Traces First Protocells Back to Emergence of Cell Membrane Bioenergetics
December 20, 2012 — A coherent pathway -- which starts from no more than rocks, water and carbon dioxide and leads to the emergence of the strange bio-energetic properties of living cells -- has been traced for the ... > full story -
Fine Hands, Fists of Fury: Our Hands Evolved for Punching, Not Just Dexterity
December 19, 2012 — Men whacked punching bags for a new study that suggests human hands evolved not only for the manual dexterity needed to use tools, play a violin or paint a work of art, but so men could make fists ... > full storyMore: -
Tracking the Origins of HIV
December 18, 2012 — Human immunodeficiency virus may have affected humans for much longer than is currently believed. Researchers now think that the genomes of an isolated West African human population provide important ... > full story -
Resurrection of Extinct Enzymes Reveals Evolutionary Strategy for the Invention of New Functions
December 11, 2012 — How does evolution innovate? By reconstructing DNA and proteins from prehistoric yeast cells, scientists have been able to directly examine the evolutionary forces that have acted over the last 100 ... > full storyMore: -
Algal Ancestor Is Key to How Deadly Pathogens Proliferate, Researchers Find
December 11, 2012 — Long ago, when life on our planet was in its infancy, a group of small single-celled algae floating in the vast prehistoric ocean swam freely by beating whip-like tails, called flagella. The ... > full story -
From Fish to Human: Research Reveals How Fins Became Legs
December 10, 2012 — Vertebrates' transition to living on land, instead of only in water, represented a major event in the history of life. Now, researchers provide new evidence that the development of hands and feet ... > full story -
Tracking Gene Flow in Marine Plant Evolution
December 10, 2012 — A new method that could give a deeper insight into evolutionary biology. Biologists identified the segregation of genes that a marine plant underwent during its evolution. They found that the ... > full story -
Monkey Business: What Howler Monkeys Can Tell Us About the Role of Interbreeding in Human Evolution
December 7, 2012 — Did different species of early humans interbreed and produce offspring of mixed ancestry? Recent genetic studies suggest that Neanderthals may have bred with anatomically modern humans tens of ... > full story -
European Romani Exodus Began 1,500 Years Ago, DNA Evidence Shows
December 6, 2012 — Despite their modern-day diversity of language, lifestyle, and religion, Europe's widespread Romani population shares a common, if complex, past. It all began in northwestern India about 1,500 years ... > full story -
Emergence of Flowering Plants: New Light Shed on Darwin's 'Abominable Mystery'
December 6, 2012 — Research sheds new light on what Charles Darwin famously called "an abominable mystery": the apparently sudden appearance and rapid spread of flowering plants in the fossil ... > full story
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