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Ancient Popcorn Discovered in Peru
January 18, 2012 — People living along the coast of Peru were eating popcorn 1,000 years earlier than previously reported and before ceramic pottery was used there, according to a new ... > full story -
Biologists Replicate Key Evolutionary Step
January 17, 2012 — More than 500 million years ago, single-celled organisms on the Earth's surface began forming multicellular clusters that ultimately became plants and animals. Just how that happened is a question ... > full story -
Most Recent European Great Ape Discovered
January 13, 2012 — Based on a hominid molar, scientists from Germany, Bulgaria and France have documented that great apes survived in Europe in savannah-like landscapes until seven million years ... > full story -
Breakthrough Model Reveals Evolution of Ancient Nervous Systems Through Seashell Colors
January 12, 2012 — Determining the evolution of pigmentation patterns on mollusk seashells -- which could aid in the understanding of ancient nervous systems -- has proved to be a challenging feat for researchers. Now, ... > full story -
New Insights Into an Ancient Mechanism of Mammalian Evolution
January 12, 2012 — A team of geneticists and computational biologists have reveal how an ancient mechanism is involved in gene control and continues to drive genome ... > full story -
Evolution Is Written All Over Your Face
January 11, 2012 — Why are the faces of primates so dramatically different from one another? Biologists serving as "evolutionary detectives" studied the faces of 129 adult male primates from Central and South America, ... > full story -
Early Primate Had Transitional Lemur-Like Grooming Claw
January 10, 2012 — A new study examines the first extinct North American primate with a toe bone showing features associated with the presence of both nails and a grooming claw, indicating our primate ancestors may ... > full story -
Molecular 'Culprit' in Rise of Planetary Oxygen
January 10, 2012 — A turning point in the history of life occurred two to three billion years ago with the unprecedented appearance and dramatic rise of molecular oxygen. Now researchers report they have identified an ... > full story -
Simpler Times: Did an Earlier Genetic Molecule Predate DNA and RNA?
January 9, 2012 — Scientists have described the Darwinian evolution of functional TNA molecules from a large pool of random sequences. This is the first case where such methods have been applied to molecules other ... > full story -
Evolution of Complexity Recreated Using 'Molecular Time Travel'
January 8, 2012 — Scientists have now demonstrated how just a few small, high-probability mutations increased the complexity of a molecular machine more than 800 million years ago. By biochemically resurrecting ... > full story
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