Evolution News

Posted August 11, 2009:

• Bipedal Humans Came Down From The Trees, Not Up From The Ground

Posted August 10, 2009:

• Climate-Caused Biodiversity Booms And Busts In Ancient Plants And Mammals
• Extinction Runs In The Family: Efforts To Preserve Evolutionary History

Posted August 9, 2009:

• Primate Archaeology Sheds Light On Human Origins

Posted August 7, 2009:

• Chicken-Hearted Tyrants: Predatory Dinosaurs As Baby Killers
• Scientists Find Early Evolution Maximized The 'Spellchecking' Of Protein Sequences

Posted August 6, 2009:

• Fossil Tooth Remains Of Extinct Rodent Species Discovered: Oldest Find Within This Genus

Posted August 5, 2009:

• Scary Ancient 'Spiders' Revealed In 3D Models, With New Imaging Technique

Posted August 4, 2009:

• Human Population Expanded During Late Stone Age, Genetic Evidence Shows

Posted July 31, 2009:

• Parasites May Have Had Role In Evolution Of Sex

Posted July 30, 2009:

• Discovery Of Elephants' Oldest Known Relative

Posted July 29, 2009:

• After Dinosaurs, Mammals Rise But Their Genomes Get Smaller
• First Vertebrate To Live In Trees Described

Posted July 28, 2009:

• Earliest Animals Lived In A Lake Environment, Research Shows

Posted July 24, 2009:

• DNA Of Ancient Lost Barley Could Help Modern Crops Cope With Water Stress

Posted July 23, 2009:

• Australian Aborigines Initially Arrived Via South Asia
• New Discovery Suggests Trees Evolved Camouflage Defense Against Long Extinct Predator

Posted July 22, 2009:

• Human Spear Likely Cause Of Death Of Neandertal

Posted July 21, 2009:

• How Evolution Can Allow For Large Developmental Leaps
• Growing Sea Lamprey Embryos Dramatically Alter Genomes, Discard Millions Of Units Of DNA

Posted July 20, 2009:

• Global Model For The Origin Of Species Independent Of Geographical Isolation

Posted July 19, 2009:

• Ecologist Brings Century-Old Eggs To Life To Study Evolution
• King Crabs Go Deep To Avoid Hot Water

Posted July 17, 2009:

• Male Sex Chromosome Losing Genes By Rapid Evolution, Study Reveals

Posted July 15, 2009:

• Not Only Dogs, But Deer, Monkeys And Birds Bark To Deal With Conflict
• Last Supper Of The Hominids Establishes Times They Lived At Sites

Posted July 14, 2009:

• Darwin’s Mystery Of Appearance Of Flowering Plants Explained
• Sharks: Missing Piece Of Fossil Puzzle Found

Posted July 13, 2009:

• First Direct Evidence Of Substantial Fish Consumption By Early Modern Humans In China 40,000 Years Ago
• Core Nuclear Pore Elements Likely Shared By All Eukaryotes

Posted July 12, 2009:

• Monkeys And Humans Use Parallel Mechanism To Recognize Faces
• Seals Quickly Respond To Gain And Loss Of Habitat Under Climate Change

Posted July 11, 2009:

• Down Under Dinosaur Burrow Discovery Provides Climate Change Clues

Posted July 9, 2009:

• Evolution Guides Cooperative Turn-Taking, Game Theory-Based Computer Simulations Show
• Explosive Growth Of Life On Earth Fueled By Early Greening Of Planet
• Domestication Of Chile Pepper Provides Insights Into Crop Origin And Evolution

Posted July 7, 2009:

• Ferns Took To The Trees And Thrived During Cretaceous Period

Posted July 3, 2009:

• Triple Fossil Find Puts Australia Back On The Dinosaur Map

Posted July 2, 2009:

• Giant Moa Rebuilt Using Ancient DNA From Prehistoric Feathers
• Plants Save The Earth From An Icy Doom

Posted July 1, 2009:

• New Fossil Primate Suggests Common Asian Ancestor, Challenges Primates Such As 'Ida'

Posted June 30, 2009:

• Study Of Flower Color Shows Evolution In Action
• Natural-Born Divers And The Molecular Traces Of Evolution
• Darwin Killed Off The Werewolf

Posted June 26, 2009:

• Gene Evolution Process Discovered

Posted June 23, 2009:

• How Big A Role Does Chance Play In The History Of Life?
• 54-Million-Year-Old Skull Reveals Early Evolution Of Primate Brains
• Social Competition May Be Reason For Bigger Brain

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