Origin of Life News

Posted June 24, 2008:

• Scientists Fix Bugs In Our Understanding Of Evolution

Posted June 23, 2008:

• Heritage Of A Deadly Disease Pinpointed With Help From Iceland's Genealogical Database

Posted June 16, 2008:

• Sea's Ebb And Flow Drive World's Big Extinction Events, Study Suggests

Posted June 13, 2008:

• Life's Raw Materials May Have Come From The Stars, Scientists Confirm

Posted June 12, 2008:

• Woolly Mammoth Gene Study Changes Extinction Theory

Posted June 10, 2008:

• Is ADHD An Advantage For Nomadic Tribesmen?

Posted June 6, 2008:

• New Way To Think About Earth's First Cells

Posted June 3, 2008:

• Evolution Of An Imprinted Domain In Mammals

Posted May 30, 2008:

• Altruism In Social Insects Is A Family Affair

Posted May 28, 2008:

• Authentic Viking DNA Retrieved From 1,000-Year-Old Skeletons

Posted May 26, 2008:

• New Research Forces U-Turn In Population Migration Theory

Posted May 21, 2008:

• Ancient Amphibian: Debate Over Origin Of Frogs And Salamanders Settled With Discovery Of Missing Link

Posted May 18, 2008:

• New Tool To Understand Evolution Of Multi-Domain Genes Developed
• Geneticists Trace The Evolution Of St. Louis Encephalitis

Posted May 13, 2008:

• Ancient Protein Offers Clues To Killer Condition

Posted May 8, 2008:

• Animal Interaction Behind Cambrian Explosion? 'Missing' Ancestors Of Today's Animals May Not Be Missing After All

Posted May 7, 2008:

• Platypus Genome Explains Animal's Peculiar Features; Holds Clues To Evolution Of Mammals

Posted May 1, 2008:

• Ancient Ecosystems Organized Much Like Our Own

Posted April 19, 2008:

• What Are The Odds Of Finding Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life?

Posted April 11, 2008:

• Ancient DNA: Reconstruction Of The Biological History Of A Human Society
• The First Animal On Earth Was Significantly More Complex Than Previously Believed

Posted April 9, 2008:

• Evolution In The Classroom: 'Evolution Machine' Lets Students See It Happen

Posted April 7, 2008:

• Meteorites Delivered The 'Seeds' Of Earth's Left-Hand Life, Experts Argue

Posted April 4, 2008:

• Is DNA Repair A Substitute For Sex?

Posted April 2, 2008:

• When Evolution Tends To Maximize The Diversity And Functioning Of Ecosystems

Posted April 1, 2008:

• Menopause Is An Adaptation To Minimize Reproductive Competition Between Females In A Family, Research Suggests
• Study Questions 'Cost Of Complexity' In Evolution
• For The Paper Trail Of Life On Mars Or Other Planets, Find Cellulose

Posted March 27, 2008:

• Reason For Almost Two Billion Year Delay In Animal Evolution On Earth Discovered

Posted March 20, 2008:

• Skulls Of Modern Humans And Ancient Neanderthals Evolved Differently Because Of Chance, Not Natural Selection

Posted March 19, 2008:

• Cutting-Edge Computing Helps Discover Origin Of Life On Earth

Posted March 14, 2008:

• Do Meteors Create Life? Explosion Of New Life Coincided With Hundreds Of Meteorite Impacts

Posted March 13, 2008:

• Life's Building Blocks From Space? Meteorites A Rich Source For Primordial Soup

Posted March 10, 2008:

• History Of Life Seen In The Structure Of Transfer RNA

Posted March 9, 2008:

• Biologists Surprised To Find Parochial Bacterial Viruses

Posted March 5, 2008:

• Giant Fossil Bats Out Of Africa, 35 Million Years Old

Posted March 4, 2008:

• New Discovery Of 'Old Growth' Crystals Provides New Record Of Planetary Evolution

Posted February 29, 2008:

• Key To Life Before Its Origin On Earth May Have Been Discovered

Posted February 21, 2008:

• No Easy Answers In Evolution Of Human Language
• Most Detailed Global Study Of Genetic Variation Completed

Posted February 20, 2008:

• Genome Of Marine Organism Tells Of Humans' Unicellular Ancestors

Posted February 19, 2008:

• Cleopatra's Cosmetics And Hammurabi's Heineken: Name Brands Far Predating Modern Capitalism

Posted February 18, 2008:

• There Is 'Design' In Nature, Biologist Argues

Posted February 16, 2008:

• Ancient Proteins Rebuilt To Reveal Primordial Earth's Temperature

Posted February 13, 2008:

• 'Junk DNA' Can Explain Origin And Complexity Of Vertebrates, Study Suggests

Posted February 8, 2008:

• Oldest Horseshoe Crab Fossil Found, 445 Million Years Old
• Did Birds Originate When Dinosaurs Went Extinct, Or Have They Been Around Far Longer?

Posted February 7, 2008:

• Languages Evolve In Rapid Bursts, Rather Than Following A Steady Pattern

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