Evolution News

Posted January 31, 2006:

• Genetic Evidence Shows Colonialists Pushed Orangutans To Brink Of Extinction
• Duck-billed Dino Crests Not Linked To Sense Of Smell

Posted January 26, 2006:

• Pitt Professor's Theory Of Evolution Gets Boost From Cell Research

Posted January 25, 2006:

• Humans Have A Strong Desire To Help Each Other, But Is Spite Also Part Of The Human Condition?

Posted January 24, 2006:

• UCSD Biologists Find New Evidence For One-way Evolution
• UNC Charlotte Linguist Restores Lost Language, Culture For 'The New World'
• The Evolution Of Food Plants: Genetic Control Of Grass Flower Architecture

Posted January 19, 2006:

• Evolutionary Shifts In Olfactory Sensitivities In Fruit Flies

Posted January 18, 2006:

• Study Finds Evolution Doesn't Always Favor Bigger Animals

Posted January 17, 2006:

• Nearly Half Of Ashkenazi Jews Descended From Four 'Founding Mothers'

Posted January 12, 2006:

• 'Darwinian Debt' May Explain Why Fish Stocks Don't Recover

Posted January 4, 2006:

• History Of Human Cannibalism Eats Away At Researchers

Posted January 3, 2006:

• Plant Defenses Prompt Bacterial Countermeasure In The Form Of 'Island' DNA Excision
• Ancient Jawless Vertebrates Used Novel Immune Responses

Posted December 27, 2005:

• Fish Evolve A Longer Lifespan By Evolving A Longer Reproductive Period, Researchers Find
• Ancient Trans-Atlantic Swarm Brought Locusts To The New World

Posted December 26, 2005:

• New Study Shows Animal Family Tree Looking Bushy In Places

Posted December 25, 2005:

• Why Christmas Trees Are Not Extinct
• Science's Breakthrough Of The Year: Watching Evolution In Action

Posted December 22, 2005:

• Scientists Narrow The Time Limits For The Human And Chimpanzee Split

Posted December 21, 2005:

• Scientists Sequence DNA Of Woolly Mammoth

Posted December 20, 2005:

• Why We Give: New Study Finds Evidence Of Generosity Among Our Early Human Ancestors

Posted December 19, 2005:

• Unexpected Finding: Some Dinosaurs Grew Slower In Hard Times

Posted December 16, 2005:

• Research Bolsters Controversial Hypothesis On Genome Size And Evolution

Posted December 14, 2005:

• Marine Biology Mystery Solved: Function Of 'Unicorn' Whale's 8-foot Tooth Discovered

Posted December 12, 2005:

• Key Brain Regulatory Gene Shows Evolution In Humans

Posted December 6, 2005:

• A Salty Tale: New Bacterial Genome Sequenced From Ancient Salterns

Posted December 5, 2005:

• Why The Amazon Rainforest Is So Rich In Species
• The End Of Aging? New Study Examines Evolutionary Explanations For 'Biological Immortality'

Posted December 1, 2005:

• New Research Shows How Evolution Explains Age Of Puberty

Posted November 29, 2005:

• MicroRNAs Have Shaped The Evolution Of The Majority Of Mammalian Genes

Posted November 25, 2005:

• Earliest Animals Had Human-like Genes

Posted November 22, 2005:

• Genealogy Of Scaly Reptiles Rewritten By New Research
• The First Laugh: New Study Posits Evolutionary Origins Of Two Distinct Types Of Laughter

Posted November 17, 2005:

• DNA Studies Show Microevolution In Penguins

Posted November 16, 2005:

• Missing Fossil Link 'Dallasaurus' Found

Posted November 15, 2005:

• 'Perception' Gene Tracked Humanity's Evolution, Scientists Say

Posted November 13, 2005:

• Giant Ape Lived Alongside Humans

Posted November 9, 2005:

• Hepatitis B Accounts For 40 Percent Of 'Missing' Asian Women

Posted November 7, 2005:

• Modern Humans Arrival In South Asia May Have Led To Demise Of Indigenous Populations

Posted November 2, 2005:

• Adult Stem Cells May Be Just Remnants Of Evolution

Posted October 30, 2005:

• Flipped Genetic Sequences Illuminate Human Evolution And Disease

Posted October 29, 2005:

• Lack Of Sex Could Be A Signpost To Extinction, Claim Researchers

Posted October 28, 2005:

• Picky Female Frogs Drive Evolution Of New Species In Less Than 8,000 Years

Posted October 23, 2005:

• Natural Selection Has Strongly Influenced Recent Human Evolution, Study Finds

Posted October 20, 2005:

• UCSD Study Shows 'Junk' DNA Has Evolutionary Importance

Posted October 19, 2005:

• Seafloor Creatures Destroyed By Ice Action During Ice Ages

Posted October 18, 2005:

• Wright Brothers Upstaged! Dinos Invented Biplanes

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