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First Genetic Evidence Uncovered Of How Major Changes In Body Shapes Occurred During Early Animal Evolution
February 7, 2002 — Biologists have uncovered the first genetic evidence that explains how large-scale alterations to body plans were accomplished during the early evolution of ... > full story -
Water Lily May Provide A "Missing Link" In The Evolution Of Flowering Plants
January 31, 2002 — One of the great mysteries of evolutionary biology is how, 150 or more million years ago, modern-day angiosperms (flowering plants) diverged from their closest relatives, the gymnosperms ... > full story -
New Theory Of The Evolution Of Bird Flight Linked To Parental Care
January 30, 2002 — Modern birds evolved from ground-dwelling reptiles as their increasingly refined parenting skills led them into the trees, where they could better protect their young, proposes a researcher at the ... > full story -
Gondwana Split Sorts Out Mammalian Evolution
January 21, 2002 — Placental mammals are a diverse group, with nearly 4000 described species (e.g., rodents, bats, elephants, humans) that bear live young and are nourished before birth in the mother's uterus ... > full story -
Evolutionary "Speed Limit" Governs How Quickly Life Bounces Back After Extinction; Biodiversity Recovers More Slowly Than Thought
January 7, 2002 — The 500-million-year history of life on Earth is a series of booms and busts. But while the busts, or extinctions, can be either sudden or gradual, the booms, or diversifications, of new organisms ... > full story -
Inherent Speed Limit Governs How Quickly Life Bounces Back After Extinction, UC Berkeley Research Shows
January 4, 2002 — The 500-million-year history of life on Earth is a series of booms and busts. But while the busts, or extinctions, can be either sudden or gradual, the booms of diversification of new organisms ... > full story -
Researchers Find Closest Living Relative Of First Land Plants
December 14, 2001 — By studying gene sequences of common fresh water algae, a team of University of Maryland researchers, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) has identified a group of algae that are the ... > full story -
Fossil Teeth Reveal Recent Origin Of Human Growth Pattern
December 6, 2001 — The long period of development leading up to a modern human's adulthood arose relatively late in our evolutionary history, according to an analysis of growth patterns in fossil teeth in the 6 ... > full story -
Largest Fossil Cockroach Found; Site Preserves Incredible Detail
November 20, 2001 — Geologists at Ohio State University have found the largest-ever complete fossil of a cockroach, one that lived 55 million years before the first dinosaurs. The cockroach, along with hundreds of other ... > full story -
University Of Cincinnati Geologist Finds Survival Benefit To Evolving After Mass Extinctions
November 7, 2001 — An evolutionary group has a significantly better chance of surviving for a long time in the geologic record if it first appears right after a mass extinction. University of Cincinnati geologist ... > full story -
Researchers Zero In On Date Of Early Hominids
November 7, 2001 — Researchers using techniques of magnetostratigraphy have determined that a rock formation in Israel called Erk-el-Ahmar is between 1.7 million and 2.0 million years old, making the hominid tools and ... > full story -
Rafting Rodents From Africa May Have Been Ancestors Of South American Species
October 12, 2001 — Forty million years ago, rodents from Africa may have colonized South America by rafting or swimming across the Atlantic, Texas A&M University biologists theorize by studying the evolution of ... > full story
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