Evolution News

Posted December 14, 2007:

• Andean Highlands In Chile Yield Ancient South American Armored Mammal Fossil
• Primitive Early Relative Of Armadillos Helps Rewrite Evolutionary Family Tree
• Present-day Species Of Piranha Resulted From Marine Incursion Into Amazon Basin

Posted December 13, 2007:

• Adapting To Pregnancy Played Key Role In Human Evolution, Study Shows

Posted December 12, 2007:

• Massive Dinosaur Discovered In Antarctica Sheds Light On Life, Distribution Of Sauropodomorphs

Posted December 11, 2007:

• Are Humans Evolving Faster? Findings Suggest We Are Becoming More Different, Not Alike
• Ice Ages And Rivers May Have Affected Gorilla Diversification
• Genome Study Places Modern Humans In Evolutionary Fast Lane

Posted December 8, 2007:

• Most Ancient Case Of Tuberculosis Found In 500,000-year-old Human; Points To Modern Health Issues

Posted December 5, 2007:

• Neanderthal Children Grew Up Fast
• Life On Earth May Have Originated As The Organic Filling In A Multilayer Sandwich Of Mica Sheets

Posted December 4, 2007:

• Fossils Excavated From Bahamian Blue Hole May Give Clues Of Early Life

Posted December 3, 2007:

• Rodent Fossils Provide Data On Climate Six Million Years Ago
• Dinosaur Mummy Found With Fossilized Skin And Soft Tissues

Posted November 30, 2007:

• How Our Ancestors Were Like Gorillas

Posted November 29, 2007:

• Group Selection, A Theory Whose Time Has Come ... Again

Posted November 28, 2007:

• Gene Study Supports Single Main Migration Across Bering Strait

Posted November 27, 2007:

• Flowering Plants Evolved Very Quickly Into Five Groups

Posted November 23, 2007:

• Tiny DNA Molecules Show Liquid Crystal Phases, Pointing Up New Scenario For First Life On Earth

Posted November 19, 2007:

• Evolution Is Deterministic, Not Random, Biologists Conclude From Multi-species Study

Posted November 15, 2007:

• Ancient Retroviruses Spurred Evolution Of Gene Regulatory Networks In Humans And Other Primates
• Digging For Dinosaurs In Outback Australia
• Parasites Might Spur Evolution Of Strange Amphibian Breeding Habits

Posted November 14, 2007:

• Changing Environment Organizes Genetic Structure

Posted November 13, 2007:

• Tool-wielding Chimps Provide A Glimpse Of Early Human Behavior

Posted November 12, 2007:

• Exceptions Prove Rule Of Tropical Importance In Biodiversity

Posted November 8, 2007:

• When Animals Evolve On Islands, Size Doesn't Matter
• Evolution: When Are Genes 'Adventurous' And When Are They Conservative?

Posted November 7, 2007:

• To Fight Disease, Animals -- Like Plants -- Can Tolerate Parasites

Posted November 6, 2007:

• Earliest Birds Acted More Like Turkeys Than Common Cuckoos

Posted November 4, 2007:

• Burrowing Mammals Dig For A Living, But How Do They Do That?

Posted November 2, 2007:

• Fossil Record Reveals Elusive Jellyfish More Than 500 Million Years Old

Posted November 1, 2007:

• Nano-assembly Mimics Origin Of Life? Molecules Organize Themselves Into Patterns

Posted October 31, 2007:

• How Did Chemical Constituents Essential To Life Arise On Primitive Earth?

Posted October 30, 2007:

• Fossilized Body Imprints Of Amphibians Found In 330 Million-year-old Rocks

Posted October 29, 2007:

• Longest Living Animal? Clam -- 400 Years Old -- Found In Icelandic Waters
• In-group Altruism And Hostility Toward Outsiders Evolved Together

Posted October 28, 2007:

• Predators And Parasites May Increase Evolutionary Stability

Posted October 27, 2007:

• Colorful View For First Land Animals

Posted October 26, 2007:

• Ancient DNA Reveals That Some Neanderthals Were Redheads

Posted October 22, 2007:

• Fossilized Cashew Nuts Reveal Europe Was Important Route Between Africa And South America

Posted October 21, 2007:

• Neandertals, Humans Share Key Changes To 'Language Gene'

Posted October 20, 2007:

• How Amber Becomes Death Trap For Watery Creatures

Posted October 19, 2007:

• New 150 Million-year-old Crab Species Discovered
• X-effect: Female Chromosome Confirmed A Prime Driver Of Speciation

Posted October 18, 2007:

• Dawn Of Animal Vision Discovered

Posted October 17, 2007:

• Earliest Evidence Of Modern Humans Detected
• Thirtieth Anniversary Of Discovery Of Third Domain Of Life

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