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Revolutionary New Theory For Origins Of Life On Earth
December 4, 2002 A totally new and highly controversial theory on the origin of life on earth, is set to cause a storm in the science world and has implications for the existence of life on other planets. Research by ... > full story -
USC Scientists Uncover Secrets Of Feather Formation; "Jurassic Chicken" Project May Help Studies Of Human Development And Evolution Of Dinosaurs
October 31, 2002 Scientists from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California have, for the first time, shown experimentally the steps in the origin and development of feathers, using the ... > full story -
Overlapping Genetic And Archaeological Evidence Suggests Neolithic Migration
September 11, 2002 For the first time, Stanford researchers have compared genetic patterns with archeological findings to discover that genetics can help predict with a high degree of accuracy the presence of certain ... > full story -
Dinosaur Ancestor's Vision Possibly Nocturnal; Researchers Recreate 240-Million Year Old Protein In Test Tube
September 4, 2002 Call it "Triassic Park": with statistics, instead of amber-preserved DNA, researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at The Rockefeller University and Yale University recreated in the ... > full story -
Computational Geneticists Revisit A Mystery In Evolution
August 7, 2002 Why, biologists first asked 60 years ago, do members of the same species have such similar traits, or phenotypes, despite the fact that they have such diverse genes, or genotypes? They couldn't ... > full story -
Retroviruses Shows That Human-Specific Variety Developed When Humans, Chimps Diverged
August 2, 2002 Scientists in the past decade have discovered that remnants of ancient germ line infections called human endogenous retroviruses make up a substantial part of the human genome. Once thought to be ... > full story -
Origin Of Bipedalism Seems Most Closely Tied To Environmental Changes
May 9, 2002 After an extensive study of evolutionary, anatomical and fossil evidence, a team of paleoanthropologists has narrowed down the number of tenable hypotheses to explain the origin of bipedalism and our ... > full story -
Researchers Discover Clues To Whale Evolution
May 9, 2002 A team of international scientists, including Hans Thewissen, an anatomist and paleontologist at the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine (NEOUCOM), has discovered that the inner ear of ... > full story -
Scientists Push Back Primate Origins From 65 Million To 85 Million Years Ago
April 18, 2002 New research that accounts for gaps in the fossil record challenges traditional methods of interpreting fossils and constructing evolutionary trees. Applying a new statistical approach to primates ... > full story -
University Of Alaska Biologist Tracking Extinct Bears
March 27, 2002 The evolution of brown bears may be better understood with help from the radiocarbon dating of bone specimens found in nearly pristine condition preserved in Alaska’s ... > full story -
New Dinosaur Related To Triceratops
March 25, 2002 Two fossils of a newly discovered dinosaur - an early, distant cousin of the Triceratops - have been discovered in China, according to research published in Nature March, 21, 2002. ... > full story -
Humans Emerged "Out Of Africa" Again And Again
March 7, 2002 Analyses of recently derived human genetic trees by Alan R. Templeton, Ph.D, of Washington University in St Louis, show that there were at least two major waves of human migration out of Africa. DNA ... > full story
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