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Great Ape Genetic Diversity Catalog Frames Primate Evolution and Future Conservation
July 3, 2013 — A catalog of great ape genetic diversity, the most comprehensive ever, elucidates the evolution and population histories of great apes from Africa and Indonesia. The resource will aid in conservation ... > full story -
Development of Hands and Feet May Help Unlock Evolution's Toolkit
July 3, 2013 — Thousands of sequences that control genes are active in the developing human limb and may have driven the evolution of the human hand and foot, a comparative genomics study has ... > full story -
Fossil Insect Traces Reveal Ancient Climate, Entrapment, and Fossilization at La Brea Tar Pits
July 3, 2013 — The La Brea Tar Pits have stirred the imaginations of scientists and the public for over a century. But the amount of time it took for ancient animals to become buried in asphalt after enduring ... > full story -
Protocells May Have Formed in a Salty Soup
July 2, 2013 — The first cell may have originated in a salty soup in which large biomolecules cluster spontaneously to form a protocell, chemists in the Netherlands have ... > full story -
Cancer Is a Result of a Default Cellular 'Safe Mode,' Physicist Proposes
June 30, 2013 — With death rates from cancer have remained largely unchanged over the past 60 years, a physicist is trying to shed more light on the disease with a very different theory of its origin that traces ... > full story -
How 'Parrot Dinosaur' Switched from Four Feet to Two as It Grew
June 28, 2013 — Tracking the growth of dinosaurs and how they changed as they grew is difficult. Using a combination of biomechanical analysis and bone histology, palaeontologists from Beijing, Bristol, and Bonn ... > full story -
A Stepping-Stone for Oxygen on Earth
June 26, 2013 — For most terrestrial life on Earth, oxygen is necessary for survival. But the planet's atmosphere did not always contain this life-sustaining substance, and one of science's greatest mysteries is how ... > full story -
A 700,000-Year-Old Horse Gets Its Genome Sequenced
June 26, 2013 — Scientists have just sequenced the oldest genome from a prehistoric creature. They have done so by sequencing and analyzing short pieces of DNA molecules preserved in bone-remnants from a horse that ... > full story -
How Throwing Made Us Human
June 26, 2013 — Scientists collected motion data from baseball players to uncover why humans are such good throwers. Little leaguers and professional baseball players alike have our extinct ancestors to thank for ... > full story -
Two Mutations Triggered an Evolutionary Leap 500 Million Years Ago
June 24, 2013 — Scientists have discovered two key mutations that sparked a hormonal revolution 500 million years ago. In a feat of "molecular time travel," the researchers resurrected and analyzed the functions of ... > full story
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