Origin of Life News

Posted November 1, 2008:

• Last Of His Kind? Researchers Complete Mitochondrial Genome Of Ancient Mummy, The Tyrolean Iceman

Posted October 31, 2008:

• Predicting Evolution’s Next Best Move With Simulator

Posted October 29, 2008:

• New Cell Division Mechanism Discovered

Posted October 19, 2008:

• Genetic-Based Human Diseases Are An Ancient Evolutionary Legacy, Research Suggests

Posted October 17, 2008:

• 'Lost' Miller-Urey Experiment Created More Of Life's Building Blocks

Posted October 16, 2008:

• Volcanoes May Have Provided Sparks Of First Life

Posted October 15, 2008:

• World's Oldest Fossil Impression Of Flying Insect Discovered: Found In Suburban Strip Mall

Posted October 13, 2008:

• Unique Fossils Capture ‘Cambrian Migration’

Posted October 8, 2008:

• DNA Could Reveal Your Surname

Posted October 7, 2008:

• Mysterious Snippets Of DNA Withstand Eons Of Evolution

Posted October 2, 2008:

• Short RNAs Show A Long History: MicroRNAs Found In Animals That Appeared A Billion Years Ago

Posted September 23, 2008:

• Primordial Fish Had Rudimentary Fingers
• 'Redesigned Hammer' That Forged Evolution Of Pregnancy In Mammals Found

Posted September 16, 2008:

• New Ant Species Discovered In The Amazon Likely Represents Oldest Living Lineage Of Ants

Posted September 13, 2008:

• Scientist Uncovers Miscalculation In Geological Undersea Record
• Computational Biochemist Uncovers A Molecular Clue To Evolution

Posted September 9, 2008:

• Childbirth Was Already Difficult For Neanderthals

Posted September 8, 2008:

• Trichoplax Genome Sequenced: 'Rosetta Stone' For Understanding Evolution

Posted September 7, 2008:

• Long-Held Assumptions Of Flightless Bird Evolution Challenged By New Research

Posted September 5, 2008:

• DNA Shows That Last Woolly Mammoths Had North American Roots

Posted September 4, 2008:

• Molecular Evolution Is Echoed In Bat Ears

Posted September 3, 2008:

• Oldest Gecko Fossil Ever Found, Entombed In Amber

Posted September 2, 2008:

• Scientists Develop New Computational Method To Investigate Origin Of Life

Posted August 29, 2008:

• 'Pristine' Amazonian Region Hosted Large, Urban Civilization

Posted August 24, 2008:

• Exploding Chromosomes Fuel Research About Evolution Of Genetic Storage

Posted August 22, 2008:

• Manes, Trains And Antlers Explained: How Showy Male Traits Evolved
• Tracing Origins Of Critical Step In Animal Evolution: The Development Of Nerves

Posted August 19, 2008:

• Molecular Sleuths Track Evolution Through The Ribosome

Posted August 17, 2008:

• Surprising Details Of Evolution Of Protein Translation Revealed

Posted August 12, 2008:

• Survival Of The Fittest: Even Cancer Cells Follow The Laws Of Evolution

Posted August 8, 2008:

• Complete Neanderthal Mitochondrial Genome Sequenced From 38,000-Year-Old Bone

Posted August 5, 2008:

• Schizophrenia: Costly By-Product Of Human Brain Evolution?

Posted July 30, 2008:

• Diamonds May Have Been Life's Best Friend On Primordial Earth
• 'Chicken And Chips' Theory Of Pacific Migration
• Bacteria Reveal Secret Of Adaptation At Evolution Canyon

Posted July 29, 2008:

• Insect Biodiversity In Amazon May Be Result Of Ice Age Climate Change And Ancient Flooding, Not River Barriers

Posted July 23, 2008:

• New Evidence Of Battle Between Humans And Ancient Virus

Posted July 21, 2008:

• Natural Selection May Not Produce The Best Organisms

Posted July 18, 2008:

• Glimpses Of Earliest Forms Of Life On Earth: Remnant Of Ancient 'RNA World' Discovered

Posted July 16, 2008:

• Europe's Ancestors: Cro-Magnon 28,000 Years Old Had DNA Like Modern Humans

Posted July 15, 2008:

• Excavated Jericho Bones May Help Israeli-Palestinian-German Team Combat Tuberculosis

Posted July 10, 2008:

• Flatfish Fossils Fill In Evolutionary Missing Link

Posted July 8, 2008:

• Simple Life Form May Have Existed 700 Million Years Earlier Than Previously Thought

Posted July 3, 2008:

• Evolutionary Origin Of Mammalian Gene Regulation Is Over 150 Million Years Old
• New Evidence That Ancient Choanoflagellates' Form Evolutionary Link Between Single-Celled And Multi-Celled Organisms

Posted June 27, 2008:

• Pumice As A Time Witness
• Huge Genome-Scale Phylogenetic Study Of Birds Rewrites Evolutionary Tree-of-Life

Posted June 24, 2008:

• Evolutionarily Preserved Signature Found In The Primate Brain

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