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Anthropologists Discover Earliest Cemetery in Middle East
February 2, 2011 — Anthropologists have discovered the oldest cemetery in the Middle East at a 16,500-year-old site in northern Jordan. The cemetery includes graves containing human remains buried alongside those of a ... > full story -
Mini or Massive? For Turtles and Tortoises, It All Depends on Where You Live
February 2, 2011 — Life scientists report the first quantitative evidence for an evolutionary link in turtles and tortoises between habitat and body ... > full story -
Newly Discovered Dinosaur Likely Father of Triceratops
January 31, 2011 — Triceratops and Torosaurus have long been considered the kings of the horned dinosaurs. But a new discovery traces the giants' family tree further back in time, when a newly discovered species called ... > full story -
New Appreciation of the Ecology-Evolution Dynamic
January 29, 2011 — Ecology drives evolution. Scientists now describe a growing evidence that the reverse is also true, and explores what that might mean to our understanding of how environmental change affects species ... > full story -
Genetic Archaeology Finds Parts of Human Genome More Closely Related to Orangutans Than Chimps
January 26, 2011 — In a new study, in coordination with the publication of the orangutan genome sequence, scientists have presented the surprising finding that although orangutans and humans are more distantly related, ... > full story -
Ancient Body Clock Discovered That Helps Keep All Living Things on Time
January 26, 2011 — The mechanism that controls the internal 24-hour clock of all forms of life from human cells to algae has been identified by ... > full story -
Orangutan DNA More Diverse Than Human's, Remarkably Stable Through the Ages
January 26, 2011 — Scientists have decoded the DNA of a Sumatran orangutan. With this genome as a reference, the scientists then sequenced the genomes of five additional Sumatran and five Bornean orangutans. The ... > full story -
Genome Analysis Outlines Variations in Orangutans of Borneo, Sumatra
January 26, 2011 — In the forests of Borneo and Sumatra orangutans are an endangered primate population so similar and yet different from man and each other, according to a recently published genome analysis of the two ... > full story -
Hormones Dictate Breeding Success in Birds
January 26, 2011 — Researchers can now predict the number of offspring a bird will have based on its prolactin and corticosterone levels. Some animals produce more offspring than others. Hormones like prolactin and ... > full story -
Evolution by Mistake: Major Driving Force Comes from How Organisms Cope With Errors at Cellular Level
January 25, 2011 — A major driving force of evolution comes from mistakes made by cells and how organisms cope with the consequences, biologists have found. Their discoveries offer lessons for creating innovation in ... > full story -
First Single-Fingered Dinosaur Discovered
January 24, 2011 — A new species of parrot-sized dinosaur, the first discovered with only one finger, has been unearthed in Inner Mongolia, ... > full story -
Salty Evolution: Previously Unknown Central Metabolic Pathway in Microorganisms Discovered
January 21, 2011 — Microbiologists in Germany have discovered a previously unknown central metabolic pathway in microorganisms. The life forms use this pathway to survive under extremely salty conditions, such as in ... > full story
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