Evolution News

Posted April 19, 2009:

• From Fish To Landlubber: Fossils Suggest Earlier Land-Water Transition Of Tetrapod

Posted April 16, 2009:

• Conserved Gene Expression Reveals Our 'Inner Fish'

Posted April 15, 2009:

• Three Neanderthal Sub-Groups Confirmed

Posted April 13, 2009:

• Prehistoric Bears Ate Everything And Anything, Just Like Modern Cousins
• Epigenetics: DNA Isn’t Everything

Posted April 12, 2009:

• Evolution's Impact On Ecosystems Shown Directly For First Time

Posted April 9, 2009:

• DNA From Old Insects: No Need To Destroy The Specimen
• New Link Between The Evolution Of Complex Life Forms On Earth And Nickel And Methane Gas

Posted April 7, 2009:

• Cooperative Behavior Meshes With Evolutionary Theory

Posted April 3, 2009:

• No Sponge In Human Family Tree: Sponges Descended From Unique Ancestor

Posted March 31, 2009:

• Hundreds Of Natural-Selection Studies Could Be Wrong, Study Demonstrates

Posted March 30, 2009:

• Optimal Running Speed Associated With Evolution Of Early Human Hunting Strategies

Posted March 27, 2009:

• Awareness Of Darwin Not Evolving

Posted March 26, 2009:

• DNA Duplication: A Mechanism For 'Survival Of The Fittest'

Posted March 25, 2009:

• Evolution Of Fins And Limbs Linked With That Of Gills
• AAAS, Leading Texas Scientists Urge State Board To Reject Anti-Evolution Effort

Posted March 24, 2009:

• Genomic Fossils In Lemurs Shed Light On Origin And Evolution Of HIV And Other Primate Lentiviruses

Posted March 23, 2009:

• Gliding Bristletails Give Clues On Evolution Of Flight
• Artificial Genetics: New Type Of DNA Has 12 Chemical Letters Instead Of Usual 4

Posted March 21, 2009:

• Fossil Fragments Reveal 500-Million-Year-Old Monster Predator

Posted March 18, 2009:

• Cretaceous Octopus With Ink And Suckers The World's Least Likely Fossils?
• Elephant Shark Genome Sequence Leads To Discovery Of Color Perception In Deep-Sea Fish

Posted March 17, 2009:

• American Carnivores Evolved To Avoid Each Other, New Study Suggests

Posted March 16, 2009:

• Key Events In Evolutionary History Revealed In Protein Structure Study

Posted March 13, 2009:

• Preserved Shark Fossil Adds Evidence To Great White's Origins
• 'Peking Man' Older Than Thought; Somehow Adapted To Cold

Posted March 11, 2009:

• Dead Gene Comes Back To Life In Humans

Posted March 10, 2009:

• Genetic Study Finds Treasure Trove Of New Lizards
• Amazonian Amphibian Diversity Traced To Andes

Posted March 9, 2009:

• Discovering The Secret Code Behind Photosynthesis

Posted March 8, 2009:

• New Zealand And New Caledonia Geographically Connected: Ocean's Journey Towards The Center Of The Earth

Posted March 3, 2009:

• How A New Theory Of Bird Evolution Came About
• First Fossil Brain: Shark Relative That Lived 300 Million Years Ago Yields Very Rare Specimen
• Billions Of Years Ago, Microbes Were Key In Developing Modern Nitrogen Cycle
• Reversing Ecology Reveals Ancient Environments

Posted March 1, 2009:

• Origin of Life On Earth: Scientists Unlock Mystery Of Molecular Machine

Posted February 28, 2009:

• Controversy Over World’s Oldest Traces Of Life

Posted February 27, 2009:

• DNA Identification Of Czar's Children Available
• Humans Walked On Modern Feet 1.5 Million Years Ago, Fossil Footprints Show

Posted February 26, 2009:

• Fossilized Pregnant Fish One Of First Animals To Have Sex

Posted February 25, 2009:

• Synthetic Biology Yields Clues To Evolution And Origin Of Life
• Anthropologist's Studies Of Childbirth Bring New Focus On Women In Evolution

Posted February 24, 2009:

• Survival Of The Weakest? Cyclical Competition Of Three Species Favors Weakest As Victor

Posted February 23, 2009:

• New Questions About Evolution Of Hormones In Mammals

Posted February 22, 2009:

• X-Rays Used To Reveal Secrets Of Famous 'Dinobird' Fossil
• Single-Celled Algae Took The Leap To Multicellularity 200 Million Years Ago
• Intrepid Explorers And The Search For The Origin Of Species

Posted February 21, 2009:

• On The Origin Of Subspecies

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