Origin of Life News

Posted December 5, 2010:

• Heat Helped Hasten Life's Beginnings on Earth, Research Suggests

Posted November 27, 2010:

• Sewage Water Bacteria: 'Missing Link' in Early Evolution of Life on Earth?

Posted November 22, 2010:

• Researchers Kick-Start Ancient DNA
• Paleovirology Expanded: Non-Retroviral Virus Fragments Found in Animal Genomes

Posted November 17, 2010:

• Upending Conventional Wisdom, Certain Virus Families Are Ancient

Posted November 14, 2010:

• New Explanation for the Origin of High Species Diversity in Amazon

Posted November 10, 2010:

• Cambrian Explosion: New Timeline for Appearances of Skeletal Animals in Fossil Record
• DNA Reveals Origins of First European Farmers

Posted November 9, 2010:

• Scottish Horticulturalist Patrick Matthew Proposed More Accurate Theory of Gradual Evolution Before Charles Darwin Did, Geologist Argues

Posted November 5, 2010:

• New Statistical Model Moves Human Evolution Back Three Million Years

Posted October 29, 2010:

• Tracking Evidence of 'The Great Dying'

Posted October 27, 2010:

• New Evidence Supports 'Snowball Earth' as Trigger for Early Animal Evolution

Posted October 21, 2010:

• Energy Revolution Key to Complex Life: Depends on Mitochondria, Cells' Tiny Power Stations

Posted October 19, 2010:

• Rotten Experiments Help to Create Picture of Our Early Ancestors

Posted October 9, 2010:

• Plants Kick-Started Evolutionary Drama of Earth's Oxygenation

Posted October 6, 2010:

• Key Reproductive Hormone in Oldest Living Vertebrate Identified

Posted October 5, 2010:

• Novelty and Complexity Are Result of Small Evolutionary Changes

Posted October 4, 2010:

• Powerful Supercomputer Peers Into the Origin of Life

Posted October 1, 2010:

• First Genetic Evidence for Loss of Teeth in the Common Ancestor of Baleen Whales

Posted September 29, 2010:

• 19-Million-Year-Old Genomic Fossils of Hepatitis B-Like Viruses in Songbirds

Posted September 28, 2010:

• Complexity Not So Costly After All: Moderately Complex Plants and Animals Can Be Better Equipped to Adapt

Posted September 27, 2010:

• Genetic Clues to Evolution of Jaws in Vertebrates Unearthed

Posted September 24, 2010:

• Ancient Egypt's Pyramids: Norwegian Researcher Unlocks Construction Secrets
• City Living Helped Humans Evolve Immunity to Tuberculosis and Leprosy, New Research Suggests

Posted September 16, 2010:

• How Bacteria Acquire Immunity: First Theoretical Description of Bacterial System to Silence Viral Genes

Posted September 15, 2010:

• Adapting to Darkness: How Behavioral and Genetic Changes Helped Cavefish Survive Extreme Environment

Posted September 13, 2010:

• Ancient Viral Invasion Shaped Human Genome

Posted September 6, 2010:

• Role of Key Genetic Catalyst for Human Diversity Discovered
• Transition Metal Catalysts Could Be Key to Origin of Life, Scientists Report

Posted September 1, 2010:

• Lima Beans Domesticated Twice

Posted August 27, 2010:

• Analysis of Ashkenazi Jewish Genomes Reveals Diversity, History

Posted August 25, 2010:

• True Causes for Extinction of Cave Bear Revealed: More Human Expansion Than Climate Change

Posted August 23, 2010:

• Ancient Microbes Responsible for Breathing Life Into Ocean 'Deserts'

Posted August 17, 2010:

• 'Mitochondrial Eve': Mother of All Humans Lived 200,000 Years Ago

Posted August 15, 2010:

• Dangerous Bacterium Hosts Genetic Remnant of Life's Distant Past

Posted August 12, 2010:

• An Ancient Earth Like Ours: Geologists Reconstruct Earth's Climate Belts Between 460 and 445 Million Years Ago

Posted August 6, 2010:

• Secret of Life on Earth May Be as Simple as What Happens Between the Sheets -- Mica Sheets, That Is

Posted August 5, 2010:

• Genome of Ancient Sponge Reveals Origins of First Animals, Cancer

Posted August 4, 2010:

• Ancient Blob-Like Creature of the Deep Revealed by Scientists
• Sponge Shines Light on Life's Origin: Genome Connects the Dots Between Amphimedon, Animal Descendants
• Genomic Sequencing of Marine Sponge Published; Revealed Early Genetic Complexity and Roots of Cancer

Posted August 2, 2010:

• Oxygen Fuels the Fires of Time

Posted July 27, 2010:

• Ötzi’s Secrets About to Be Revealed

Posted July 21, 2010:

• Primitive Frogs Do a Belly Flop: Study Shows That Frogs Evolved Jumping Before They Refined Landing

Posted July 18, 2010:

• Remarkable Fossil Cave Shows How Ancient Marsupials Grew

Posted July 8, 2010:

• 'Magical Thinking' About Islands an Illusion? Biologist Refutes Conventional Thinking on Evolution

Posted July 2, 2010:

• Tibetan Adaptation to High Altitude Occurred in Less Than 3,000 Years

Posted July 1, 2010:

• Complex, Multicellular Life from Over Two Billion Years Ago Discovered

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