Origin of Life News

Posted November 26, 2012:

• Ancient Microbes Found Living Beneath the Icy Surface of Antarctic Lake
• Evolutionary Mode Routinely Varies Amongst Morphological Traits Within Fossil Species Lineages
• Model Sheds Light on Chemistry That Sparked Origin of Life

Posted November 21, 2012:

• New Evidence on Dinosaurs' Role in Evolution of Bird Flight

Posted November 15, 2012:

• Archaeologists Identify Oldest Spear Points: Used in Hunting Half-Million Years Ago
• Science of the Search for Richard III

Posted November 12, 2012:

• Mongolia and the Altai Mountains: Origins of Genetic Blending Between Europeans and Asians

Posted November 8, 2012:

• Greenland Rocks Provide Evidence of Earth Formation Process

Posted November 7, 2012:

• Fossils and Genes Brought Together to Piece Together Evolutionary History

Posted November 6, 2012:

• New Computational Method for Timing the Tree of Life

Posted November 5, 2012:

• The Evolution of Creationism

Posted November 1, 2012:

• Solving a Biological Mystery: Gene Related to Germ Cell Formation Is Far Older Than First Thought

Posted October 29, 2012:

• New Study Sheds Light on How and When Vision Evolved

Posted October 25, 2012:

• Clearer Picture of How Assassin Bugs Evolved: Entomologists Reconstruct the Evolutionary History
• Far from Random, Evolution Follows a Predictable Genetic Pattern

Posted October 24, 2012:

• Flycatchers' Genomes Explain How One Species Became Two

Posted October 23, 2012:

• Analysis of Dinosaur Bone Cells Confirms Ancient Protein Preservation
• Oxygen's Ups and Downs in Early Atmosphere and Ocean

Posted October 22, 2012:

• Technology Brings New Life to the Study of Diseases in Old Bones
• Complete Mitochondrial Genome Sequences of Ancient New Zealanders

Posted October 19, 2012:

• Evolution: New Understandings of How Populations Change Over Time

Posted October 16, 2012:

• Scientists Identify Likely Origins of Vertebrate Air Breathing

Posted October 14, 2012:

• Early-Earth Cells Modeled to Show How First Life Forms Might Have Packaged RNA

Posted October 12, 2012:

• Fly Genomes Show Natural Selection and Return to Africa

Posted October 11, 2012:

• Developmental Biologist Proposes New Theory of Early Animal Evolution That Challenges Basic Assumption of Evolution

Posted October 10, 2012:

• Cambrian Fossil Pushes Back Evolution of Complex Brains

Posted October 9, 2012:

• Marine Worms Reveal the Deepest Evolutionary Patterns

Posted October 4, 2012:

• Dating Between Modern Humans and Neandertals
• Anthropologist Finds Evidence of Hominin Meat Eating 1.5 Million Years Ago: Eating Meat May Have 'Made Us Human'

Posted October 3, 2012:

• Which Came First, Shells or No Shells? Ancient Mollusk Tells a Contrary Story

Posted September 27, 2012:

• Nature's Misfits: Reclassifying Protists Helps Answer How Many Species Remain Undiscovered

Posted September 26, 2012:

• Extreme Climate Change Linked to Early Animal Evolution
• Brain Parts Can Evolve Independently, Shows Analysis of Brains of 10,000 Mice

Posted September 24, 2012:

• Large Bacterial Population Colonized Land 2.75 Billion Years Ago

Posted September 20, 2012:

• Study Shows Ancient Relations Between Language Families

Posted September 19, 2012:

• CT Scan and 3-D Print Help Scientists Reconstruct an Ancient Mollusk

Posted September 18, 2012:

• How Life Arose on Earth: Researchers Brew Up Organics on Ice

Posted September 11, 2012:

• Little Ice Age Led to Migration of Island Hopping Arctic Foxes

Posted September 4, 2012:

• Human Impact Felt on Black Sea Long Before Industrial Era

Posted August 26, 2012:

• Simplifying Genetic Codes to Look Back in Time

Posted August 16, 2012:

• Bird Louse Study Shows How Evolution Sometimes Repeats Itself
• A GPS in Your DNA

Posted August 14, 2012:

• Remaking History: A New Take on How Evolution Has Shaped Modern Europeans

Posted August 13, 2012:

• Research Raises Doubts About Whether Modern Humans and Neanderthals Interbred

Posted August 10, 2012:

• Why Do Organisms Build Tissues They Seemingly Never Use?

Posted August 9, 2012:

• Searching Salt for Answers About Life on Earth, Mars

Posted August 8, 2012:

• Shark Teeth Help Scientists Uncover Predator's History
• Physics and Math Shed New Light on Biology by Mapping the Landscape of Evolution

Posted August 7, 2012:

• Division of Labor Offers Insight Into the Evolution of Multicellular Life
• Paddlefish's Doubled Genome May Question Theories on Limb Evolution

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