Origin of Life News

Posted September 11, 2002:

• Overlapping Genetic And Archaeological Evidence Suggests Neolithic Migration

Posted September 4, 2002:

• Dinosaur Ancestor's Vision Possibly Nocturnal; Researchers Recreate 240-Million Year Old Protein In Test Tube

Posted August 23, 2002:

• Scientists Confirm Age Of The Oldest Meteorite Collision On Earth

Posted August 7, 2002:

• Computational Geneticists Revisit A Mystery In Evolution

Posted August 2, 2002:

• Retroviruses Shows That Human-Specific Variety Developed When Humans, Chimps Diverged

Posted July 23, 2002:

• Dust In "Earth's Attic" Could Hold Evidence Of Planet's Earliest Life

Posted May 9, 2002:

• Researchers Discover Clues To Whale Evolution

Posted April 18, 2002:

• Scientists Push Back Primate Origins From 65 Million To 85 Million Years Ago

Posted March 27, 2002:

• University Of Alaska Biologist Tracking Extinct Bears

Posted March 25, 2002:

• New Dinosaur Related To Triceratops

Posted March 13, 2002:

• UCLA Scientists, Colleagues Substantiate Biological Origin Of Earliest Fossils

Posted March 7, 2002:

• Humans Emerged "Out Of Africa" Again And Again

Posted February 7, 2002:

• First Genetic Evidence Uncovered Of How Major Changes In Body Shapes Occurred During Early Animal Evolution

Posted January 31, 2002:

• Water Lily May Provide A "Missing Link" In The Evolution Of Flowering Plants

Posted December 10, 2001:

• Droplets In Salt Crystals Confirm Historic Ocean Changes

Posted October 12, 2001:

• Rafting Rodents From Africa May Have Been Ancestors Of South American Species

Posted September 20, 2001:

• New Fossils Suggest Whales And Hippos Are Close Kin

Posted August 10, 2001:

• First Land Plants And Fungi Changed Earth's Climate, Paving The Way For Explosive Evolution Of Land Animals, New Gene Study Suggests

Posted May 15, 2001:

• Scientists Find Link Between Indian Caste Rank And Genetic Similarity To Europeans

Posted May 11, 2001:

• Study Supports Out-Of-Africa Origin For East Asians

Posted April 3, 2001:

• Oily Fossils Provide Clues To The Evolution Of Flowers

Posted March 29, 2001:

• Major Fossil Find Reveals Asian Origins Of Salamanders

Posted February 13, 2001:

• Genome Project Opens The Book On Human Evolution

Posted January 11, 2001:

• New Fossil Study Rejects "Eve Theory" And Supports Diverse Ancestry Of Modern Humans
• New Fossil Found In Mongolia Provides Insight Into The Origin Of Living Birds And The Evolution Of Flight

Posted October 23, 2000:

• Astrobiologists Probe A Desert Galapagos To See Evolution's Great Leap

Posted May 29, 2000:

• Equatorial Water May Have Provided Means Of Survival

Posted May 16, 2000:

• Images Of Evolution: DNA Leaves Fossils In The Dust

Posted April 17, 2000:

• Ancient Dirty Pottery May Hold Key To Iroquoian Origin

Posted March 31, 2000:

• Rare Tests On Neanderthal Infant Sheds Light On Early Human Development

Posted March 17, 2000:

• Newly Discovered Fossils From China Shed Light On Common Ancestry Of Monkeys, Apes And Humans

Posted February 4, 2000:

• University Of Hawaii Researchers Find Myoglobin-Like Proteins In Ancient Microorganisms
• Life On Land Tied To Gene Expansion

Posted January 26, 2000:

• We Are Not Alone Or Are We?

Posted January 24, 2000:

• Genes Pertaining To "Maleness" Evolve More Rapidly Than Their Non-Sexual Counterparts

Posted January 10, 2000:

• Big Bang Theory Of Human Evolution?

Posted October 28, 1999:

• Ancient Iron-Rich Rocks Point To Early Occurrence Of Land-Based Life

Posted August 31, 1999:

• Primate Genus Sheds Light On Great Ape And Human Origins

Posted August 6, 1999:

• New Tree Of Life For Plants: 'Animal Kingdom' And 'Plant Kingdom' Categories No Longer Relevant

Posted June 25, 1999:

• Dinosaur Fossils Reveal Evolution's Big Picture, Says Paleontologist

Posted June 17, 1999:

• Discovery Of New Bird Species In China, Oldest Beak Shows Evolution Complexity

Posted April 22, 1999:

• Earliest Modern Tree Lived 360-345 Million Years Ago

Posted April 12, 1999:

• New Findings On Primitive Shark Contradicts Current View Of Jaw Evolution

Posted March 22, 1999:

• Flatworms Are Oldest Living Ancestors To Those Of Us With Right And Left Sides, Researchers Report In Science

Posted January 21, 1999:

• Large Gene Study Questions Cambrian Explosion

Posted December 14, 1998:

• Study Associates Asteroid Or Comet Impact With Extinctions In Argentina

Posted November 17, 1998:

• Beyond Jurassic Park -- Real Science With Ancient DNA

Posted October 1, 1998:

• Fossil Evidence Of Worms Over One Billion Years Old Reported In Science

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