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Overlapping Genetic And Archaeological Evidence Suggests Neolithic Migration
September 11, 2002 — For the first time, Stanford researchers have compared genetic patterns with archeological findings to discover that genetics can help predict with a high degree of accuracy the presence of certain ... > full story -
Dinosaur Ancestor's Vision Possibly Nocturnal; Researchers Recreate 240-Million Year Old Protein In Test Tube
September 4, 2002 — Call it "Triassic Park": with statistics, instead of amber-preserved DNA, researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at The Rockefeller University and Yale University recreated in the ... > full story -
Scientists Confirm Age Of The Oldest Meteorite Collision On Earth
August 23, 2002 — A team of geologists has determined the age of the oldest known meteorite impact on Earth -- a catastrophic event that generated massive shockwaves across the planet billions of years before a ... > full story -
Computational Geneticists Revisit A Mystery In Evolution
August 7, 2002 — Why, biologists first asked 60 years ago, do members of the same species have such similar traits, or phenotypes, despite the fact that they have such diverse genes, or genotypes? They couldn't ... > full story -
Retroviruses Shows That Human-Specific Variety Developed When Humans, Chimps Diverged
August 2, 2002 — Scientists in the past decade have discovered that remnants of ancient germ line infections called human endogenous retroviruses make up a substantial part of the human genome. Once thought to be ... > full story -
Dust In "Earth's Attic" Could Hold Evidence Of Planet's Earliest Life
July 23, 2002 — The dust has been piling up in Earth's attic for billions of years, and now some scientists want to sift through the accumulation to see if they can find evidence of the planet's earliest ... > full story -
Researchers Discover Clues To Whale Evolution
May 9, 2002 — A team of international scientists, including Hans Thewissen, an anatomist and paleontologist at the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine (NEOUCOM), has discovered that the inner ear of ... > full story -
Scientists Push Back Primate Origins From 65 Million To 85 Million Years Ago
April 18, 2002 — New research that accounts for gaps in the fossil record challenges traditional methods of interpreting fossils and constructing evolutionary trees. Applying a new statistical approach to primates ... > full story -
University Of Alaska Biologist Tracking Extinct Bears
March 27, 2002 — The evolution of brown bears may be better understood with help from the radiocarbon dating of bone specimens found in nearly pristine condition preserved in Alaska’s ... > full story -
New Dinosaur Related To Triceratops
March 25, 2002 — Two fossils of a newly discovered dinosaur - an early, distant cousin of the Triceratops - have been discovered in China, according to research published in Nature March, 21, 2002. ... > full story -
UCLA Scientists, Colleagues Substantiate Biological Origin Of Earliest Fossils
March 13, 2002 — UCLA paleobiologist J. William Schopf and colleagues have substantiated the biological origin of the earliest known cellular fossils, which are 3.5 billion years old. The research is published in the ... > full story -
Humans Emerged "Out Of Africa" Again And Again
March 7, 2002 — Analyses of recently derived human genetic trees by Alan R. Templeton, Ph.D, of Washington University in St Louis, show that there were at least two major waves of human migration out of Africa. DNA ... > full story
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