Origin of Life News

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 21, 2007:

• Whales Descended From Tiny Deer-like Ancestors

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

Posted November 21, 2007:

• Giant Fossil Sea Scorpion Bigger Than Man

Posted November 19, 2007:

• Evolution Is Deterministic, Not Random, Biologists Conclude From Multi-species Study

Posted November 15, 2007:

• Ancient Retroviruses Spurred Evolution Of Gene Regulatory Networks In Humans And Other Primates

Posted November 14, 2007:

• Changing Environment Organizes Genetic Structure

Posted November 12, 2007:

• Exceptions Prove Rule Of Tropical Importance In Biodiversity

Posted November 8, 2007:

• Evolution: When Are Genes 'Adventurous' And When Are They Conservative?

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:

• Origin Of 'Breathable' Atmosphere Half A Billion Years Ago Discovered

Posted October 28, 2007:

• Predators And Parasites May Increase Evolutionary Stability

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:

• 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:

• A Gene Divided Reveals The Details Of Natural Selection

Posted October 9, 2007:

• New Insights Into The Evolution Of The Human Genome

Posted October 8, 2007:

• Driving Force Of Evolution? Evolution Of Proteins Linked To Species' Metabolic Rate

Posted October 5, 2007:

• Census Of Protein Architectures Offers New View Of History Of Life

Posted October 4, 2007:

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

Posted October 3, 2007:

• Could Adenine From Interstellar Dust Have Triggered Life On Earth? Elsewhere?

Posted September 27, 2007:

• Oxygen Probably Present 50 To 100 Million Years Earlier Than First Believed
• DNA Extracted From Woolly Mammoth Hair

Posted September 17, 2007:

• New Method Can Reveal Ancestry Of All Genes Across Many Different Genomes

Posted September 12, 2007:

• Prehistoric Reptiles From Russia Possessed The First Modern Ears

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