Evolution News

Posted July 30, 2008:

• Bacteria Reveal Secret Of Adaptation At Evolution Canyon

Posted July 29, 2008:

• Insect Biodiversity In Amazon May Be Result Of Ice Age Climate Change And Ancient Flooding, Not River Barriers
• Piecing Together An Extinct Lemur, Large As A Big Baboon

Posted July 24, 2008:

• Dinosaurs Did Not Evolve Quickly In Last 50 Million Years, New Dinosaur Super-tree Shows

Posted July 23, 2008:

• New Evidence Of Battle Between Humans And Ancient Virus

Posted July 21, 2008:

• Brain Morphology Of Homo Liujiang Cranium Fossil Detailed With 3-D CT Scan
• Natural Selection May Not Produce The Best Organisms
• Athapaskan Migration To Southwest U.S. Illuminated With Y Chromosome Study

Posted July 18, 2008:

• From Humming Fish To Puccini: Vocal Communication Evolved With Ancient Species
• Glimpses Of Earliest Forms Of Life On Earth: Remnant Of Ancient 'RNA World' Discovered

Posted July 16, 2008:

• Europe's Ancestors: Cro-Magnon 28,000 Years Old Had DNA Like Modern Humans

Posted July 15, 2008:

• Marsupials And Humans Share Same Genetic Imprinting That Evolved 150 Million Years Ago
• Excavated Jericho Bones May Help Israeli-Palestinian-German Team Combat Tuberculosis

Posted July 14, 2008:

• Disproving Conventional Wisdom On Diversity Of Marine Fossils And Extinction Rates

Posted July 13, 2008:

• Will Our Future Brains Be Smaller?

Posted July 10, 2008:

• Flatfish Fossils Fill In Evolutionary Missing Link

Posted July 9, 2008:

• Big Brains Arose Twice In Higher Primates
• Fossil Feathers Preserve Evidence Of Color, Say Scientists

Posted July 8, 2008:

• Can You Hear Me Now? Primitive Single-Celled Microbe Expert In Cellular Communication Networks
• Simple Life Form May Have Existed 700 Million Years Earlier Than Previously Thought

Posted July 3, 2008:

• Evolutionary Origin Of Mammalian Gene Regulation Is Over 150 Million Years Old
• New Evidence That Ancient Choanoflagellates' Form Evolutionary Link Between Single-celled And Multi-celled Organisms

Posted July 2, 2008:

• Newcomer In Early Eurafrican Population?

Posted June 30, 2008:

• Canine Tooth Strength Provides Clues To Behavior Of Early Human Ancestors
• Maize (Corn) May Have Been Domesticated In Mexico As Early As 10,000 Years Ago

Posted June 27, 2008:

• New Fossils Of Extremely Primitive 4-Legged Creatures Close The Gap Between Fish And Land Animals
• Huge Genome-scale Phylogenetic Study Of Birds Rewrites Evolutionary Tree-of-life

Posted June 25, 2008:

• Estimation Of Isolation Times In The Drosophila Simulans Complex

Posted June 24, 2008:

• Evolutionarily Preserved Signature Found In The Primate Brain
• Scientists Fix Bugs In Our Understanding Of Evolution

Posted June 22, 2008:

• New Discovery Proves 'Selfish Gene' Exists

Posted June 19, 2008:

• Worm-like Marine Animal Providing Fresh Clues About Human Evolution

Posted June 18, 2008:

• Male Homosexuality Can Be Explained Through A Specific Model Of Darwinian Evolution, Study Shows
• Shallow Water Corals Evolved From Deep Sea Ancestors

Posted June 16, 2008:

• Uncovering The Truth Behind The Largest Marsupial To Walk The Earth
• Humor Shown To Be Fundamental To Our Success As A Species

Posted June 13, 2008:

• Life's Raw Materials May Have Come From The Stars, Scientists Confirm

Posted June 12, 2008:

• Woolly Mammoth Gene Study Changes Extinction Theory

Posted June 10, 2008:

• Is ADHD An Advantage For Nomadic Tribesmen?

Posted June 8, 2008:

• Fossilized Burrows 245 Million Years Old Suggest Lizard-like Creatures In Antarctica

Posted June 6, 2008:

• Fish 380 Million Years Old Found With Unborn Embryo

Posted June 4, 2008:

• Genetic Mutation Linked To Walking On All Fours

Posted June 3, 2008:

• Evolution Of An Imprinted Domain In Mammals

Posted June 1, 2008:

• Living Fossils Have Long- And Short-term Memory Despite Lacking Brain Structures Of Modern Cephalopods

Posted May 30, 2008:

• Altruism In Social Insects Is A Family Affair

Posted May 28, 2008:

• Fundamental Building Block In Flowering Plants Evolved Independently, Yet Almost Identically In Ancient Plants

Posted May 26, 2008:

• New Research Forces U-turn In Population Migration Theory

Posted May 24, 2008:

• New Statistical Method Reveals Surprises About Our Ancestry

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