Origin of Life News

Posted May 8, 2008:

• Animal Interaction Behind Cambrian Explosion? 'Missing' Ancestors Of Today's Animals May Not Be Missing After All

Posted May 7, 2008:

• Platypus Genome Explains Animal's Peculiar Features; Holds Clues To Evolution Of Mammals

Posted May 1, 2008:

• Ancient Ecosystems Organized Much Like Our Own

Posted April 19, 2008:

• What Are The Odds Of Finding Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life?

Posted April 11, 2008:

• Ancient DNA: Reconstruction Of The Biological History Of A Human Society

Posted April 9, 2008:

• Evolution In The Classroom: 'Evolution Machine' Lets Students See It Happen

Posted April 7, 2008:

• Meteorites Delivered The 'Seeds' Of Earth's Left-hand Life, Experts Argue

Posted April 4, 2008:

• Is DNA Repair A Substitute For Sex?

Posted April 2, 2008:

• When Evolution Tends To Maximize The Diversity And Functioning Of Ecosystems

Posted April 1, 2008:

• Menopause Is An Adaptation To Minimize Reproductive Competition Between Females In A Family, Research Suggests
• Study Questions 'Cost Of Complexity' In Evolution
• For The Paper Trail Of Life On Mars Or Other Planets, Find Cellulose

Posted March 27, 2008:

• Reason For Almost Two Billion Year Delay In Animal Evolution On Earth Discovered

Posted March 20, 2008:

• Skulls Of Modern Humans And Ancient Neanderthals Evolved Differently Because Of Chance, Not Natural Selection

Posted March 19, 2008:

• Cutting-edge Computing Helps Discover Origin Of Life On Earth

Posted March 14, 2008:

• Do Meteors Create Life? Explosion Of New Life Coincided With Hundreds Of Meteorite Impacts

Posted March 13, 2008:

• Life's Building Blocks From Space? Meteorites A Rich Source For Primordial Soup

Posted March 10, 2008:

• History Of Life Seen In The Structure Of Transfer RNA

Posted March 9, 2008:

• Biologists Surprised To Find Parochial Bacterial Viruses

Posted March 5, 2008:

• Giant Fossil Bats Out Of Africa, 35 Million Years Old

Posted March 4, 2008:

• New Discovery Of 'Old Growth' Crystals Provides New Record Of Planetary Evolution

Posted February 29, 2008:

• Key To Life Before Its Origin On Earth May Have Been Discovered

Posted February 21, 2008:

• No Easy Answers In Evolution Of Human Language
• Most Detailed Global Study Of Genetic Variation Completed

Posted February 20, 2008:

• Genome Of Marine Organism Tells Of Humans' Unicellular Ancestors

Posted February 19, 2008:

• Cleopatra's Cosmetics And Hammurabi's Heineken: Name Brands Far Predating Modern Capitalism

Posted February 18, 2008:

• There Is 'Design' In Nature, Biologist Argues

Posted February 16, 2008:

• Ancient Proteins Rebuilt To Reveal Primordial Earth's Temperature

Posted February 13, 2008:

• 'Junk DNA' Can Explain Origin And Complexity Of Vertebrates, Study Suggests

Posted February 8, 2008:

• Oldest Horseshoe Crab Fossil Found, 445 Million Years Old
• Did Birds Originate When Dinosaurs Went Extinct, Or Have They Been Around Far Longer?

Posted February 7, 2008:

• Languages Evolve In Rapid Bursts, Rather Than Following A Steady Pattern

Posted January 22, 2008:

• Artificial Viral Shells Could Be Useful Nano-Containers

Posted January 20, 2008:

• Secret Of Scottish Sheep Evolution Discovered

Posted January 10, 2008:

• 480-million-year-old Fossil Sheds Light On 150-year-old Paleontological Mystery

Posted January 7, 2008:

• Plate Tectonics May Grind To A Halt, Then Start Again

Posted January 4, 2008:

• Two Explosive Evolutionary Events Shaped Early History Of Multicellular Life

Posted January 3, 2008:

• Missing Evolutionary Link Found By Using Tiny Fungus Crystal

Posted January 2, 2008:

• Fresh Fossil Evidence Of Eye Forerunner Uncovered

Posted December 26, 2007:

• Will Beetles Inherit The Earth? Evolutionary Study Reveals Their Long-term Success

Posted December 18, 2007:

• Evolution With A Restricted Number Of Genes

Posted December 15, 2007:

• Losses Of Long-established Genes Contribute To Human Evolution

Posted December 11, 2007:

• Are Humans Evolving Faster? Findings Suggest We Are Becoming More Different, Not Alike
• 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:

• Life On Earth May Have Originated As The Organic Filling In A Multilayer Sandwich Of Mica Sheets

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

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