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Most Ancient Case Of Tuberculosis Found In 500,000-year-old Human; Points To Modern Health Issues
December 8, 2007 — Although most scientists believe tuberculosis emerged only several thousand years ago, new research reveals the most ancient evidence of the disease has been found in a 500,000-year-old human fossil ... > full story -
Neanderthal Children Grew Up Fast
December 5, 2007 — Tooth growth suggests rapid maturation in a Neanderthal child. Neanderthal life history, or the timing of developmental and reproductive events, has been under great debate during the past few ... > full story -
Life On Earth May Have Originated As The Organic Filling In A Multilayer Sandwich Of Mica Sheets
December 5, 2007 — Life may have begun in the protected spaces inside of layers of the mineral mica, in ancient oceans, according to a new theory. The narrow, confined spaces between nonliving mica layers could have ... > full story -
Fossils Excavated From Bahamian Blue Hole May Give Clues Of Early Life
December 4, 2007 — Long before tourists arrived in the Bahamas, ancient visitors took up residence in this archipelago off Florida's coast and left remains offering stark evidence that the arrival of humans can ... > full story -
Rodent Fossils Provide Data On Climate Six Million Years Ago
December 3, 2007 — A researcher has discovered three new rodent species which inhabited the Guadix basin in the upper Turoliense and the Pliocene. His doctoral thesis is based on the analysis of the teeth of these ... > full story -
Dinosaur Mummy Found With Fossilized Skin And Soft Tissues
December 3, 2007 — The amazing discovery of one of the finest and rarest dinosaur specimens ever unearthed -- a partially intact dino mummy found in the Hell Creek Formation Badlands of North Dakota was discovered by ... > full story -
How Our Ancestors Were Like Gorillas
November 30, 2007 — Some of our closest extinct relatives had more in common with gorillas than previously thought. Fossils illustrate sex differences in growth and the costs of being a male. One of the anthropologists ... > full story -
Group Selection, A Theory Whose Time Has Come ... Again
November 29, 2007 — Sociobiology, the discipline founded on Darwin's theory of group evolution, is in theoretical disarray. In a new article evolutionary scientists usher in a new era in evolutionary ... > full story -
Gene Study Supports Single Main Migration Across Bering Strait
November 28, 2007 — A new analysis of genetic variation among more than two dozen native populations bolsters the theory that the ancestors of modern native peoples across the Americas came via a northwest land bridge ... > full story -
Flowering Plants Evolved Very Quickly Into Five Groups
November 27, 2007 — Botantists have shed light on what Charles Darwin called the "abominable mystery" of early plant evolution. The analyses also confirmed that a unique species of plant called Amborella, found only on ... > full story -
Tiny DNA Molecules Show Liquid Crystal Phases, Pointing Up New Scenario For First Life On Earth
November 23, 2007 — Scientists have discovered some unexpected forms of liquid crystals of ultrashort DNA molecules immersed in water, providing a new scenario for a key step in the emergence of life on ... > full story -
Evolution Is Deterministic, Not Random, Biologists Conclude From Multi-species Study
November 19, 2007 — Biologists have concluded that developmental evolution is deterministic and orderly, rather than random, based on a study of different species of roundworms. The researchers note that even where we ... > full story
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