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Cambrian Fossil Pushes Back Evolution of Complex Brains
October 10, 2012 — Complex brains evolved much earlier than previously thought, as evidenced by a 520-million-year-old fossilized arthropod with remarkably well-preserved brain structures. Representing the earliest ... > full story -
Marine Worms Reveal the Deepest Evolutionary Patterns
October 9, 2012 — Scientists have revealed new findings on the evolutionary relationships and structure of priapulids -- a group of carnivorous mud-dwelling worms living in shallow marine ... > full story -
Dating Between Modern Humans and Neandertals
October 4, 2012 — To discover why Neandertals are most closely related to people outside Africa, scientists have estimated the date when Neandertals and modern Europeans last shared ancestors. The research provides a ... > full story -
Anthropologist Finds Evidence of Hominin Meat Eating 1.5 Million Years Ago: Eating Meat May Have 'Made Us Human'
October 4, 2012 — A skull fragment unearthed in Tanzania shows our ancient ancestors ate meat at least 1.5 million years ago, shedding new light on human ... > full storyMore: -
Which Came First, Shells or No Shells? Ancient Mollusk Tells a Contrary Story
October 3, 2012 — A fossil unearthed in Great Britain may end a long-running debate about the mollusks, one of life's most diverse invertebrate groups: Which evolved first, shelled forms like clams and snails, or ... > full storyMore: -
Nature's Misfits: Reclassifying Protists Helps Answer How Many Species Remain Undiscovered
September 27, 2012 — Since the Victorian era, categorizing the natural world has challenged scientists. No group has presented a challenge as tricky as the protists, the tiny, complex life forms that are neither plants ... > full story -
Extreme Climate Change Linked to Early Animal Evolution
September 26, 2012 — An international team of scientists has uncovered new evidence linking extreme climate change, oxygen rise, and early animal ... > full story -
Brain Parts Can Evolve Independently, Shows Analysis of Brains of 10,000 Mice
September 26, 2012 — Scientists have found compelling evidence that parts of the brain can evolve independently from each other. The brains of approximately 10,000 mice were analyzed. Seven individual parts of each brain ... > full story -
Large Bacterial Population Colonized Land 2.75 Billion Years Ago
September 24, 2012 — New University of Washington research suggests that early microbes might have been widespread on land, producing oxygen and weathering pyrite, an iron sulfide mineral, which released sulfur and ... > full story -
Study Shows Ancient Relations Between Language Families
September 20, 2012 — How do language families evolve over many thousands of years? How stable over time are structural features of languages? Researchers introduced a new method using Bayesian phylogenetic approaches to ... > full story
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