Evolution News

Posted September 7, 2004:

• Heart Gene Yields Insights Into Evolution, Disease Risk

Posted September 6, 2004:

• Battle Of The Bubbles May Have Sparked Evolution

Posted September 3, 2004:

• Chimp-sized Hominid Walked Upright On Two Legs Six Million Years Ago
• Neanderthal Life No Tougher Than That Of 'Modern' Inuits

Posted August 20, 2004:

• Prions Act As Stepping Stones In Evolution

Posted August 19, 2004:

• Pineal Gland Evolved To Improve Vision, According To New Theory

Posted August 18, 2004:

• Gene Duplication Allowed Pigs To Have More Babies
• Using Statistics To Decipher Secrets Of Natural Mutation

Posted August 13, 2004:

• Evolution Of Whale Hearing Unfolds In Fossil Record

Posted August 10, 2004:

• Early Humans Adapted Well To Different Climates And Vegetation Types
• Evolvability Could Be A Driving Force In Drug Resistance

Posted August 5, 2004:

• Study Suggests Humans Can Speed Evolution

Posted July 30, 2004:

• Study Finds Anti-HIV Protein Evolved Millions Of Years Before The Emergence Of AIDS
• Researchers Review Evolutionary History Of Modern Algae

Posted July 19, 2004:

• Dig Unearths Artifacts That May Resolve Donner Party Questions

Posted July 14, 2004:

• Growth Study Of Wild Chimpanzees Challenges Assumptions About Early Humans

Posted July 13, 2004:

• Chipmunks Descended From Ancestors That Survived Last Ice Age, Scientists Say

Posted July 6, 2004:

• Old Is Young, Study Finds: Longevity Evolved Late For Humans

Posted June 29, 2004:

• Earliest Evidence Of Hereditary Genetic Disorder Discovered

Posted June 9, 2004:

• Two Dinosaurs From Africa Give Clues To Continents’ Split

Posted April 15, 2004:

• Researchers Close In On How Gene Changes Lead To New Traits

Posted April 8, 2004:

• Barren Siberia, Of All Places, May Be Original Home To Animal Life
• In Solving An Ancient Whodunit, Geologists Conclude That Even In The Miocene, The Rhino Reigned Supreme

Posted April 2, 2004:

• New Fossil Links Four-legged Land Animals To Ancient Fish
• UC San Diego Bioinformatics Experts Help Reconstruct The Genomic Makeup Of Our Ancestors

Posted April 1, 2004:

• Ferns Diversified In Shadow Of Flowering Plants

Posted March 26, 2004:

• NIST-led Research De-mystifies Origins Of 'Junk' DNA

Posted March 25, 2004:

• First Protein Difference Between Humans And Primates That Correlates To Anatomical Changes In Early Hominid Fossil Record

Posted March 8, 2004:

• Baker's Yeast Rises From Genome Duplication

Posted March 5, 2004:

• New Evidence Suggests Early Oceans Bereft Of Oxygen For Eons; Early Life May Have Lived Very Differently Than Life Today
• New Ethiopian Fossils Are From 6-million-year-old Hominid Living Just After Split From Chimpanzees

Posted March 3, 2004:

• Stanford Study Questions Identity Of Alleged Romanov Bones

Posted February 17, 2004:

• Human Evolution At The Crossroads: Integrating Genetics And Paleontology

Posted February 16, 2004:

• Rutgers Researcher Offers A New Perspective On Human Evolution

Posted February 14, 2004:

• Penguin Bones From "Land Of Fire" Rewrite Bird’s Evolution

Posted February 10, 2004:

• Dinosaur Fossil Record Compiled, Analyzed; 500 Or More Dinosaurs Possible Yet To Be Discovered

Posted January 27, 2004:

• New Study Shows Neanderthals Were Not Our Ancestors

Posted January 23, 2004:

• University Of Chicago Study Overturns Conclusion Of Historic Human Genome Data

Posted January 22, 2004:

• Human Migration Tracked In Stanford Computer Simulation

Posted January 14, 2004:

• Ancient DNA Mutations Permitted Humans To Adapt To Colder Climates, Researchers Find

Posted January 13, 2004:

• Researchers Show Evolutionary Theory Adds Up

Posted January 1, 2004:

• Scientist Challenges Interpretation Of New Find, The Oldest Primate Fossil Ever Discovered

Posted December 31, 2003:

• Working On The 'Porsche Of Its Time': New Model For Species Determination Offered

Posted December 12, 2003:

• Researchers Discover The Earliest Known Relative Of Marsupial Mammals

Posted December 4, 2003:

• New Fossils From Ethiopia Open A Window On Africa's "Missing Years"
• Ocean Currents Slow Adaptation Of Tree-dwelling Lizards, UCLA Study Finds; Research Sheds New Light On Island Evolution

Posted November 25, 2003:

• Book Offers Overview Of Cave Paleontology

Posted November 17, 2003:

• Baboon Studies Reveal Pressures And Benefits Of Complex Social Societies

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