Origin of Life News

Posted June 3, 2011:

• Autism May Have Had Advantages in Humans' Hunter-Gatherer Past, Researcher Believes

Posted May 31, 2011:

• Researchers Solve Mammoth Evolutionary Puzzle: The Woollies Weren't Picky, Happy to Interbreed

Posted May 24, 2011:

• Population Genetics Reveals Shared Ancestries: DNA Links Modern Europeans, Middle Easterners to Sub-Saharan Africans

Posted May 19, 2011:

• Peculiar Feeding Mechanism of the First Vertebrates

Posted May 18, 2011:

• Errors in Protein Structure Sparked Evolution of Biological Complexity
• Young Graphite in Old Rocks Challenges the Earliest Signs of Life

Posted May 17, 2011:

• Mass Extinction of Marine Life in Oceans During Prehistoric Times Offers Warning for Future

Posted May 16, 2011:

• Genomic Archeology Reveals Early Evolution of Sex Chromosomes
• New Evidence Shows Mobile Animals Could Have Evolved Much Earlier Than Previously Thought

Posted May 11, 2011:

• Evolutionary Adaptations Can Be Reversed, but Rarely

Posted May 3, 2011:

• First Rainforests Arose When Plants Solved Plumbing Problem

Posted May 2, 2011:

• Rice's Origins Point to China, Genome Researchers Conclude
• Lichen Evolved on Two Tracks, Like Marsupials and Mammals

Posted April 27, 2011:

• Out of Africa: How the Fruit Fly Made Its Way in the World

Posted April 19, 2011:

• Plankton Fossils Tell Tale of Evolution and Extinction

Posted April 15, 2011:

• Africa the Birthplace of Human Language, Analysis Suggests
• Successful Blueprints Are Recycled by Evolution, Study Suggests

Posted April 13, 2011:

• Loch Fossils Show Life Harnessed Sun and Sex Early on

Posted April 12, 2011:

• New Species of Dinosaur Bridges Gap in Dinosaur Family Tree

Posted April 10, 2011:

• New Genetic Study Helps Solve Darwin's Mystery About Ancient Evolution of Flowering Plants

Posted April 5, 2011:

• Did Dinosaurs Have Lice? Researchers Say It's Possible

Posted April 4, 2011:

• Ancient Enzymes: Protein Adaptation Shows That Life on Early Earth Lived in a Hot, Acidic Environment

Posted March 31, 2011:

• Fossil Is Best Look Yet at an Ancestor of Buttercups

Posted March 24, 2011:

• New Discoveries on Gene Regulation in the Evolution of the Vertebrate Brain

Posted March 23, 2011:

• Glimpse of How the 'Code' of Life May Have Emerged

Posted March 22, 2011:

• First Image of Protein Residue in 50-Million-Year-Old Reptile Skin

Posted March 21, 2011:

• Primordial Soup Gets Spicier: 'Lost' Samples from Famous Origin of Life Researcher Shed New Light on Earth's First Life

Posted March 17, 2011:

• A New Evolutionary History of Primates

Posted March 16, 2011:

• High-Tech Concrete Technology Has a Famous Past

Posted March 9, 2011:

• Missing DNA Helps Make Us Human
• How Plants Sort and Eliminate Genes Over Millennia

Posted March 8, 2011:

• The Case for a Neoproterozoic Oxygenation Event

Posted March 7, 2011:

• Stone Tools Influenced Hand Evolution in Human Ancestors, Anthropologists Say

Posted March 3, 2011:

• 'David and Goliath' Viruses Shed Light on the Origin of Jumping Genes
• Human Ancestors Lived on Shaky Ground

Posted March 2, 2011:

• Peanut Worms Are Annelids
• Abundant Ammonia Aids Life's Origins

Posted February 28, 2011:

• Function of 'Junk DNA' in Human Genes

Posted February 24, 2011:

• Homoplasy: A Good Thread to Pull to Understand the Evolutionary Ball of Yarn

Posted February 22, 2011:

• New Marine Mollusk -- Oldest in Its Genus -- Discovered in Iberian Peninsula

Posted February 20, 2011:

• Skin Color: Handy Tool for Teaching Evolution?

Posted February 17, 2011:

• Subtle Shifts, Not Major Sweeps, Drove Human Evolution

Posted February 16, 2011:

• Oldest Fossils of Large Seaweeds, Possible Animals Tell Story About Oxygen in an Ancient Ocean

Posted February 9, 2011:

• Simple Marine Worms Distantly Related to Humans

Posted February 7, 2011:

• X-Rays Reveal Hidden Leg of an Ancient Snake: New Hints on How Snakes Were Getting Legless
• Conceptualizing Cancer Cells as Ancient 'Toolkit'
• Clay-Armored Bubbles May Have Formed First Protocells: Minerals Could Have Played a Key Role in the Origins of Life

Posted February 4, 2011:

• Discovery of Jumping Gene Cluster Tangles Tree of Life

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