Evolution News

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

Posted October 15, 2007:

• A Gene Divided Reveals The Details Of Natural Selection

Posted October 14, 2007:

• Inconsistencies With Neanderthal Genomic DNA Sequences

Posted October 12, 2007:

• Green Algae: The Nexus Of Plant-Animal Ancestry
• A Gene Divided Reveals The Details Of Natural Selection
• Benefits Of 80 Million Years Without Sex
• Difference Between Fish And Humans: Century-old Developmental Question Answered

Posted October 10, 2007:

• Early Apes Walked Upright 15 Million Years Earlier Than Previously Thought, Evolutionary Biologist Argues

Posted October 9, 2007:

• New Insights Into The Evolution Of The Human Genome
• Ancient African Megadroughts May Have Driven Human Evolution -- Out Of Africa

Posted October 8, 2007:

• Driving Force Of Evolution? Evolution Of Proteins Linked To Species' Metabolic Rate
• Primitive Plants Use Heat And Odor To Woo Pollinating Insects

Posted October 6, 2007:

• Fossil Data Plugs Gaps In Current Knowledge, Study Shows

Posted October 5, 2007:

• Census Of Protein Architectures Offers New View Of History Of Life
• Galapagos Hawk's Evolutionary History Illuminated

Posted October 4, 2007:

• Beyond A 'Speed Limit' On Mutations, Species Risk Extinction

Posted October 3, 2007:

• Huge New Dinosaur Had A Serious Bite

Posted September 30, 2007:

• Antarctic Plants And Animal Life Survived Ice Ages
• Fish Diet Linked To Evolution, Ten Million Year Old Chipped Teeth Show

Posted September 27, 2007:

• DNA Extracted From Woolly Mammoth Hair

Posted September 26, 2007:

• Human Ancestors More Primitive That Once Thought

Posted September 25, 2007:

• New Light Shed On The 'Hobbit'

Posted September 20, 2007:

• Why Are Some Groups Of Animals So Diverse?
• Velociraptor Had Feathers

Posted September 19, 2007:

• Prehistoric Aesthetics Explains Snail Biogeography Puzzle

Posted September 18, 2007:

• Who Went There? Matching Fossil Tracks With Their Makers

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