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Posted February 19, 2011:

• Oldest Fossils of Large Seaweeds, Possible Animals Tell Story About Oxygen in an Ancient Ocean

Posted February 15, 2011:

• New Research Changes Understanding of C4 Plant Evolution

Posted February 10, 2011:

• Simple Marine Worms Distantly Related to Humans
• Foot Bone Suggests Lucy's Kin Had Arched Foot, for Walking

Posted February 8, 2011:

• Evolution Led to Genetic Variation That May Affect Diabetes, Scientist Says

Posted February 7, 2011:

• X-Rays Reveal Hidden Leg of an Ancient Snake: New Hints on How Snakes Were Getting Legless

Posted February 5, 2011:

• Discovery of Jumping Gene Cluster Tangles Tree of Life

Posted January 31, 2011:

• New Appreciation of the Ecology-Evolution Dynamic

Posted January 26, 2011:

• Genetic Archaeology Finds Parts of Human Genome More Closely Related to Orangutans Than Chimps
• Orangutan DNA More Diverse Than Human's, Remarkably Stable Through the Ages
• Evolution by Mistake: Major Driving Force Comes from How Organisms Cope With Errors at Cellular Level
• Genome Analysis Outlines Variations in Orangutans of Borneo, Sumatra

Posted January 25, 2011:

• First Single-Fingered Dinosaur Discovered

Posted January 24, 2011:

• Salty Evolution: Previously Unknown Central Metabolic Pathway in Microorganisms Discovered

Posted January 14, 2011:

• Putting the Dead to Work: Conservation Paleobiologists Dig Deep to Solve Today's Ecological, Evolutionary Questions

Posted January 13, 2011:

• What Gives Frogs a Face? Zoologists Clarify Role of FOXN3 Gene in Development of Clawed Frog

Posted January 11, 2011:

• Hard-to-Find Fish Reveals Shared Developmental Toolbox of Evolution

Posted January 10, 2011:

• Oxygen-Free Early Oceans Likely Delayed Rise of Life on Planet

Posted January 7, 2011:

• Lice DNA Study Shows Humans First Wore Clothes 170,000 Years Ago

Posted December 21, 2010:

• Meat-Eating Dinosaurs Not So Carnivorous After All

Posted December 20, 2010:

• Genetic Basis of Brain Diseases: Set of Proteins Account for Over 130 Brain Diseases
• Three Billion-Year-Old Genomic Fossils Deciphered

Posted December 17, 2010:

• Molecular Fossil: Crystal Structure Shows How RNA, One of Biology's Oldest Catalysts, Is Made

Posted December 16, 2010:

• Age Doesn't Matter: New Genes Are as Essential as Ancient Ones

Posted December 15, 2010:

• Similarities in the Embryonic Development of Various Animal Species Are Also Found at Molecular Level

Posted December 5, 2010:

• Heat Helped Hasten Life's Beginnings on Earth, Research Suggests

Posted November 29, 2010:

• Rainforest Collapse Drove Reptile Evolution

Posted November 28, 2010:

• Dogs Have Bigger Brains Than Cats Because They Are More Sociable, Research Finds

Posted November 27, 2010:

• Sewage Water Bacteria: 'Missing Link' in Early Evolution of Life on Earth?

Posted November 25, 2010:

• Spice of Life: Variety Is Also Good for Hares

Posted November 22, 2010:

• Paleovirology Expanded: Non-Retroviral Virus Fragments Found in Animal Genomes

Posted November 18, 2010:

• Gangster Birds Running Protection Racket Give Insight Into Coevolution

Posted November 17, 2010:

• Upending Conventional Wisdom, Certain Virus Families Are Ancient

Posted November 14, 2010:

• New Explanation for the Origin of High Species Diversity in Amazon

Posted November 10, 2010:

• Cambrian Explosion: New Timeline for Appearances of Skeletal Animals in Fossil Record

Posted November 9, 2010:

• Scottish Horticulturalist Patrick Matthew Proposed More Accurate Theory of Gradual Evolution Before Charles Darwin Did, Geologist Argues

Posted November 8, 2010:

• Fire Fuels Flowers Success

Posted November 6, 2010:

• DNA Fingerprinting Traces Global Path of Plague

Posted November 5, 2010:

• New Statistical Model Moves Human Evolution Back Three Million Years

Posted November 2, 2010:

• Do Holes Make Moles? Surprising First Ancestor of Bizarre Marsupial Moles

Posted October 21, 2010:

• Energy Revolution Key to Complex Life: Depends on Mitochondria, Cells' Tiny Power Stations

Posted October 20, 2010:

• Why the Leopard Got Its Spots

Posted October 19, 2010:

• Rotten Experiments Help to Create Picture of Our Early Ancestors
• Genomic Comparison of Ocean Microbes Reveals East-West Divide in Populations
• Mutation Over 100 Million Years Ago Led Flowers to Make Male and Female Parts Differently

Posted October 15, 2010:

• Gene's Location on Chromosome Plays Big Role in Shaping How an Organism's Traits Evolve

Posted October 6, 2010:

• Key Reproductive Hormone in Oldest Living Vertebrate Identified

Posted October 5, 2010:

• Novelty and Complexity Are Result of Small Evolutionary Changes

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