Evolution News

Posted December 24, 2004:

• Research Points To New Theory Driving Evolutionary Changes

Posted December 10, 2004:

• Regional Recovery More Rapid Following Late Ordovician Extinction

Posted December 9, 2004:

• Impulsive Behavior May Be Relict Of Hunter-gatherer Past

Posted December 8, 2004:

• Revisiting The Vertebrate Invasion Of The Land

Posted December 7, 2004:

• Human Gland Probably Evolved From Gills
• Yerkes Researchers Discover Basis For Determining Handedness In Chimpanzees

Posted December 6, 2004:

• Common Lineage Suggested For Viruses That Infect Hosts From All Three Domains Of Life

Posted December 2, 2004:

• URI Researcher Shows That Dinosaur Extinction Occurred At Peak Of Diversity

Posted November 30, 2004:

• UCLA Study Points To Evolutionary Roots Of Altruism, Moral Outrage
• New Method To Measure Ancient Land Elevation Developed By Field Museum Scientist
• UCLA/Emory Article Reviews How Human Brain Evolved Separately From Body

Posted November 25, 2004:

• Genome Of Ancient Fish Could Reveal Evolutionary Mysteries, Stanford Scientists Say

Posted November 24, 2004:

• New Fossil May Be Closest Yet To Ancestor Of All Great Apes
• How Running Made Us Human: Endurance Running Let Us Evolve To Look The Way We Do

Posted November 22, 2004:

• Stuck In An Evolutionary Trap -- A Puzzle Posed By Black-headed Ducks Yields To Persistent Biologists

Posted November 18, 2004:

• Pitt Student Discovers New Genus, Species Of Ancient Amphibian

Posted November 16, 2004:

• Ancient Marine Invasion Sheds Light On Diversity
• Scientists Advocate Genomic Sequencing Of 'Living Fossil'

Posted November 15, 2004:

• Ancient Fossil Offers New Clues To Brown Bears Past
• Are Museum Collections Of Ancient Life Representative?

Posted November 12, 2004:

• Seismosaur Cut Down To Size

Posted November 11, 2004:

• Crucial Evolutionary Link Points To Origins Of Modern Cells
• Sexual Competition Drives Evolution Of A Sex-related Gene
• Earliest Tracks Of 4-Legged Stroll
• Plentiful Fossils Of Dinosaur Contemporary Allow Population Study

Posted November 5, 2004:

• Who Laid The First Egg? Scientists Move A Step Closer To Linking Embryos Of Earth's First Animals To Adult Form

Posted November 2, 2004:

• Findings Challenge Darwinian Theory

Posted November 1, 2004:

• Darwin's Greatest Challenge Tackled: The Mystery Of Eye Evolution

Posted October 29, 2004:

• Emory Study Details Dolphin Brain Evolution For The First Time

Posted October 28, 2004:

• Skeleton Reveals Lost World Of 'Little People'
• Fossil Suggests Long Neck Made This Reptile An Effective Predator

Posted October 25, 2004:

• Insects Implicated In The Evolution Of New Human Infectious Diseases
• Tracking Ancient Earth's Oxygen Levels Provides Backdrop For Evolution

Posted October 21, 2004:

• For Inferring The Biological Tree Of Life, Simple Is Better
• Scientists Find Clue To Blindness In Cavefish

Posted October 18, 2004:

• Arctic Mystery No Longer: Dinosaurs Walked Canada's Great North

Posted October 14, 2004:

• Laboratory Test Of Evolutionary Theory Confirms Importance Of Links Between Populations

Posted October 13, 2004:

• Biologists ID Molecular Block For Social 'Cheaters': Gene's Dual Role In Cooperation, Reproduction Provides Evolutionary Protection

Posted October 12, 2004:

• Component Of Volcanic Gas May Have Played A Significant Role In The Origins Of Life On Earth

Posted October 5, 2004:

• Of Lice And Men: Parasite Genes Reveal Modern & Archaic Humans Made Contact

Posted October 4, 2004:

• Diatom Genome Reveals Key Role In Biosphere's Carbon Cycle

Posted October 1, 2004:

• Out Of Africa: Scientists Find Earliest Evidence Yet Of Human Presence In Northeast Asia

Posted September 29, 2004:

• Punching The Timeclock Of Life

Posted September 27, 2004:

• 'Fossil Genes' Reveal How Life Sheds Form And Function

Posted September 24, 2004:

• A Long-necked Sea Predator From China Described In Science

Posted September 21, 2004:

• Genes Expose Secrets Of Sex On The Side

Posted September 14, 2004:

• Adaptive Changes In The Genome May Provide Insight Into The Genetics Of Complex Disease

Posted September 13, 2004:

• A New Tribe?

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