Origin of Life News

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

Posted September 6, 2007:

• Mice Thrive Missing Ancient DNA Sequences

Posted September 3, 2007:

• Volcanoes Key To Earth's Oxygen Atmosphere

Posted September 1, 2007:

• Looking For Life In And Under Antarctic Ice

Posted August 31, 2007:

• Ethiopian Plateau Formation Coincided With Climate Change That May Have Spurred Human Evolution

Posted August 30, 2007:

• Amber Specimen Captures Ancient Chemical Battle

Posted August 29, 2007:

• How To Speed Up Evolution: Switch Goals

Posted August 28, 2007:

• World's Oldest Bacteria Found Living In Permafrost

Posted August 22, 2007:

• Ancient Organisms Discovered In Canadian Gold Mine

Posted August 20, 2007:

• Scientists Retrace Evolution With First Atomic Structure Of An Ancient Protein

Posted August 17, 2007:

• Fossil Fish Jaws Give Information On Our Own Remote Ancestors

Posted August 16, 2007:

• Handsome By Chance: Why Humans Look Different From Neanderthals
• Adaptation To Parasites Drive African Fishes Along Different Evolutionary Paths

Posted August 15, 2007:

• Conquest Of Land Began In Shark Genome
• Physicists Discover Inorganic Dust With Lifelike Qualities

Posted August 14, 2007:

• Did Life Begin In Space? New Evidence From Comets

Posted August 13, 2007:

• Locked In Glaciers, Ancient Ice May Return To Life As Glaciers Melt

Posted August 10, 2007:

• Microbial Remains Of Some Of The Oldest Forms Of Life Discovered

Posted August 1, 2007:

• Coelacanth Fossil Sheds Light On Fin-to-limb Evolution

Posted July 31, 2007:

• Aegean Sea Seen As Driver Of Changes In The Eastern Mediterranean
• Genomics Study Provides Insight Into The Evolution Of Unique Human Traits
• Discovery Provides Key Evidence Of Life's Beginnings

Posted July 26, 2007:

• Fossils Older Than Dinosaurs Reveal Pattern Of Early Animal Evolution On Earth

Posted July 23, 2007:

• Charting Ever-changing Genomes
• One Species, Many Genomes

Posted July 17, 2007:

• How Plants Learned To Respond To Changing Environments

Posted July 12, 2007:

• Evidence Of Very Recent Human Adaptation: Up To 10 Percent Of Human Genome May Have Changed
• A First-principles Model Of Early Evolution

Posted July 11, 2007:

• Neutral Evolution Has Helped Shape Our Genome

Posted July 6, 2007:

• Sea Anemone Genome Provides New View Of Our Multi-celled Ancestors

Posted July 5, 2007:

• Fossil DNA Proves Greenland Once Had Lush Forests; Ice Sheet Is Surprisingly Stable

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