
Origins of Human Culture Linked to Rapid Climate Change
Rapid climate change during
the Middle Stone Age,
between 80,000 and 40,000
years ago, sparked surges in
cultural innovation in early
modern human populations,
... > full story

'Whodunnit' of Irish Potato Famine Solved
An international team of
scientists reveals that a
unique strain of potato
blight they call HERB-1
triggered the Irish potato
famine of the mid-19th
century. ... > full story
Fossil Brain Teaser: New Study Reveals Patterns of Dinosaur Brain Development
A new study sheds light on
how the brain and inner ear
developed in dinosaurs.
Using high-resolution CT
scanning and 3D computer
... > full story

Origins of Life: In Early Earth, Iron Helped RNA Catalyze Electron Transfer
A new study shows how
complex biochemical
transformations may have
been possible under
conditions that existed when
... > full story
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Archaeological Genetics: It's Not All as Old as It at First Seems
May 20, 2013 Genomic analyses suggest that patterns of genetic diversity which indicate population movement may not be as ancient as previously believed, but may be attributable to recent ... > full story -
Paleontology: The Eloquence of Otoliths Seen in a 23-Million-Year-Old Fish Fossil
May 16, 2013 Fish fossils that are about 23 million years old give unprecedented insight into the evolutionary history of the gobioid order, one of the most species-rich groups among the modern bony ... > full story -
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Evolution Shapes New Rules for Ant Behavior, Research Finds
May 15, 2013 Biologist Deborah M. Gordon's decades-long study of collective behavior in harvester ant colonies has provided a rare real-time look at natural selection at ... > full story -
Untangling the Tree of Life
May 15, 2013 Phylogeneticists examined the reasons why large-scale tree-of-life studies are producing contradictory results and have proposed a suite of novel techniques to resolve the ... > full story -
Fossil Saved from Mule Track Revolutionizes Understanding of Ancient Dolphin-Like Marine Reptile
May 14, 2013 Scientists have revealed a new species of ichthyosaur (a dolphin-like marine reptile from the age of dinosaurs) from Iraq, which revolutionizes our understanding of the evolution and extinction of ... > full story -
Mum and Dad Dinosaurs Shared the Work
May 14, 2013 A study into the brooding behavior of birds has revealed their dinosaur ancestors shared the load when it came to incubation of ... > full storyMore: -
From Ocean to Land: The Fishy Origins of Our Hips
May 14, 2013 New research has revealed that the evolution of the complex, weight-bearing hips of walking animals from the basic hips of fish was a much simpler process than previously ... > full story -
Oldest Fossil Hominin Ear Bones Ever Recovered: Discovery Could Yield Important Clues on Human Origins
May 13, 2013 Anthropologists could shed new light on the earliest existence of humans. The study analyzed the tiny ear bones, the malleus, incus and stapes, from two species of early human ancestor in South ... > full storyMore: -
Productivity Increases With Species Diversity, Just as Darwin Predicted
May 13, 2013 Environments containing species that are distantly related to one another are more productive than those containing closely related species, according to new ... > full story -
Earliest Archaeological Evidence of Human Ancestors Hunting and Scavenging
May 10, 2013 A recent research study has shed new light on the diet and food acquisition strategies of some the earliest human ancestors in Africa. Beginning around two million years ago, early stone tool-making ... > full story
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