Origin of Life News

Posted March 1, 2009:

• Origin of Life On Earth: Scientists Unlock Mystery Of Molecular Machine

Posted February 28, 2009:

• Controversy Over World’s Oldest Traces Of Life

Posted February 25, 2009:

• Synthetic Biology Yields Clues To Evolution And Origin Of Life
• Anthropologist's Studies Of Childbirth Bring New Focus On Women In Evolution

Posted February 22, 2009:

• X-Rays Used To Reveal Secrets Of Famous 'Dinobird' Fossil
• Intrepid Explorers And The Search For The Origin Of Species

Posted February 21, 2009:

• On The Origin Of Subspecies

Posted February 16, 2009:

• Draft Version Of The Neanderthal Genome Completed

Posted February 13, 2009:

• High-Tech Tests Allow Anthropologists To Track Ancient Hominids Across The Landscape

Posted February 11, 2009:

• Y Chromosome And Surname Study Challenges Infidelity 'Myth'

Posted February 10, 2009:

• Big Year For Darwin, But What Would He Make Of The Climate Change Ahead?

Posted February 7, 2009:

• Rapidly Evolving Gene Contributes To Origin Of Species

Posted February 6, 2009:

• Origin Of Claws Seen In Fossil 390 Million Years Old

Posted February 5, 2009:

• Earliest Evidence For Animal Life Discovered: Fossil Animal Steroids Date Back More Than 635 Million Years

Posted February 4, 2009:

• Ötzi’s Last Days: Glacier Man May Have Been Attacked Twice

Posted January 29, 2009:

• Billion-Year Revision Of Plant Evolution Timeline May Stem From Discovery Of Lignin In Seaweed

Posted January 28, 2009:

• Natural Selection Not The Only Process That Drives Evolution?

Posted January 27, 2009:

• New Tree Of Life Divides All Lower Metazoans From Higher Animals, Molecular Research Confirms

Posted January 26, 2009:

• Evolution And Epilepsy: Improvement In Brain Electrical Signaling Is Critical Both For Vertebrate Evolution And For Preventing Epileptic Seizures

Posted January 20, 2009:

• Adaptation Plays Significant Role In Human Evolution

Posted January 19, 2009:

• Parasites In The Genome? Molecular Parasite Could Play An Important Role In Human Evolution

Posted January 18, 2009:

• Largest-to-Date Genetic Snapshot Of Iceland 1,000 Years Ago Completed

Posted January 17, 2009:

• DNA Testing May Unlock Secrets Of Medieval Manuscripts

Posted January 15, 2009:

• Primate Culture Is Just A Stone's Throw Away From Human Evolution, Study Finds

Posted January 12, 2009:

• Microscopic Morphology Adds To Scorpion Family Tree
• 'Reverse Evolution' In Real Time Provides Key Insights Into Basic Mechanisms Of Evolution

Posted January 10, 2009:

• How Did Life Begin? RNA That Replicates Itself Indefinitely Developed For First Time

Posted January 9, 2009:

• Understanding Extinct Microbes May Influence The State Of Modern Human Health

Posted January 5, 2009:

• African Thicket Rat Malaria Linked To Virulent Human Form

Posted December 24, 2008:

• How Gene Function Drives Natural Selection In Important Class Of Genetic Elements

Posted December 23, 2008:

• Evolution: Life On Earth Got Bigger In 2-Million-Fold Leaps
• Origin Of Life On Earth: Simple Fusion To Jump-Start Evolution

Posted December 20, 2008:

• How Genes And Proteins Interact To Build Life's Dynamic Architecture

Posted December 19, 2008:

• Earth's Original Ancestor Was 'LUCA'

Posted December 17, 2008:

• 'Follow The Elements' To Understand Evolution In Ancient Oceans

Posted December 8, 2008:

• Carbon Dioxide Helped Ancient Earth Escape Deathly Deep Freeze

Posted December 7, 2008:

• Proteins Strangle Cell During Division

Posted December 1, 2008:

• Humanity May Hold Key For Next Earth Evolution

Posted November 27, 2008:

• Two From One: Evolution Of Genders From Hermaphroditic Ancestors Mapped Out

Posted November 26, 2008:

• Jurassic Turtles Could Swim

Posted November 25, 2008:

• Deep Heat Solution To 500-Million Year Fossil Mystery

Posted November 21, 2008:

• Discovery Of Giant Roaming Deep Sea Protist Provides New Perspective On Animal Evolution

Posted November 14, 2008:

• Mineral Kingdom Has Co-Evolved With Life, Scientists Find

Posted November 12, 2008:

• Sedimentary Records Link Himalayan Erosion Rates And Monsoon Intensity Through Time
• Evolution's New Wrinkle: Proteins With 'Cruise Control' Act Like Adaptive Machines

Posted November 11, 2008:

• Without Enzyme, Biological Reaction Essential To Life Takes 2.3 Billion Years

Posted November 10, 2008:

• How Evolution Learns From Past Environments To Adapt To New Environments

Posted November 6, 2008:

• DNA Chunks, Chimps And Humans: Marks Of Differences Between Human And Chimp Genomes

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