Origin of Life News

Posted June 23, 2010:

• Separation Between Neanderthal and Homo Sapiens Might Have Occurred 500,000 Years Earlier, DNA from Teeth Suggests

Posted June 21, 2010:

• Understanding Genetic Mixing Through Migration: A Tool for Clinicians as Well as Geneaologists
• The 'Bumpy Ride' of Linguistic Change

Posted June 18, 2010:

• Malaria Threat Is as Old as Humanity, New Research Shows

Posted June 16, 2010:

• Delineating Primary and Secondary Organic Carbon in Neoproterozoic Glacial Sediments

Posted June 15, 2010:

• Origin of Life: Adding UV Light Helps Form 'Missing G' of RNA Building Blocks

Posted June 10, 2010:

• Model Explains Rapid Transition Toward Division of Labor in Biological Evolution

Posted June 7, 2010:

• Molecular Methods Are Not Sufficient in Systematics and Evolution

Posted June 4, 2010:

• How Did Higher Life Evolve? Brown Algal Genome Opens New Door to Understanding Multicellularity and Photosynthesis
• Common Genetic Threads Link Thousands of Years of Jewish Ancestry

Posted June 2, 2010:

• Jumping Genes Provide Extensive 'Raw Material' for Evolution, Study Finds

Posted June 1, 2010:

• Revealing the Ancient Chinese Secret of Sticky Rice Mortar

Posted May 31, 2010:

• How Whales Have Changed Over 35 Million Years

Posted May 26, 2010:

• Prehistoric Birds Were Poor Flyers, Research Shows

Posted May 25, 2010:

• 'Nature's Batteries' May Have Helped Power Early Lifeforms

Posted May 23, 2010:

• Odd Geometry of Bacteria May Provide New Way to Study Earth's Oldest Fossils

Posted May 19, 2010:

• Hammerhead Shark Study Shows Cascade of Evolution Affected Size, Head Shape

Posted May 18, 2010:

• Demoting a Dinosaur: New Fossil Material Redefines Azendohsaurus as a Peculiar Early Reptile
• New 'Tree of Life' Established for One of the Largest Groups of Bacteria

Posted May 17, 2010:

• Plumage-Color Traits More Extreme Over Time
• First Large-Scale Formal Quantitative Test Confirms Darwin's Theory of Universal Common Ancestry

Posted May 14, 2010:

• Fossil Find Fills in Picture of Ancient Marine Life

Posted May 11, 2010:

• Odd Dental Features Reveal Undocumented Primate: Previously Unknown Species Complicates Understanding of African Evolution
• X-Rays Reveal Chemical Link Between Birds and Dinosaurs
• Did Phosphorus Trigger Complex Evolution -- And Blue Skies?

Posted May 7, 2010:

• Peptides May Hold 'Missing Link' to Life

Posted May 6, 2010:

• Neanderthal Genome Yields Insights Into Human Evolution and Evidence of Interbreeding With Modern Humans
• Neandertals 'Hardly Differed at All' from Modern Humans
• Complete Neanderthal Genome Sequenced: DNA Signatures Found in Present-Day Europeans and Asians, but Not in Africans

Posted May 4, 2010:

• 'Different Forms of Flowers' Continues to Fascinate: Darwin's Influential Study Inspires Research on Breeding System Called Heterostyly

Posted May 3, 2010:

• Resurrected Mammoth Blood Very Cool

Posted May 2, 2010:

• Global Glaciation Snowballed Into Giant Change in Carbon Cycle

Posted April 29, 2010:

• Secrets of Unique Enzyme May Illuminate Ancient Ecosystems

Posted April 27, 2010:

• Fossil of Newly Discovered Species Found in Spain

Posted April 23, 2010:

• Primate Fossil More Than 11 Million Years Old Discovered

Posted April 21, 2010:

• 'Ancestral Eve' Crystal May Explain Origin of Life's Left-Handedness

Posted April 20, 2010:

• Chinese Pigs 'Direct Descendants' of First Domesticated Breeds

Posted April 13, 2010:

• Pre-History of Life: Elegantly Simple Organizing Principles Seen in Ribosomes

Posted April 12, 2010:

• Rewiring of Gene Regulation Across 300 Million Years of Evolution
• Kissing Cousins: Genes Critical to Moths’ Complicated Sexual Communication and Their Evolution Uncovered

Posted April 8, 2010:

• New Hominid Shares Traits With Homo Species: Fossil Find Sheds Light on the Transition to Homo Genus from Earlier Hominids

Posted April 6, 2010:

• Form or Function? Evolution Takes Different Paths, Genetic Study Shows

Posted April 3, 2010:

• Traces of Early Native Americans -- In Sunflower Genes

Posted April 1, 2010:

• Why Earth Wasn't One Big Ball of Ice 4 Billion Years Ago When Sun's Radiation Was Weaker

Posted March 25, 2010:

• New Human Species Discovered: Mitochondrial Genome of Previously Unknown Hominins from Siberia Decoded

Posted March 23, 2010:

• Evolution of Primordial Chemical Sensor, Nociception, Sniffed out

Posted March 22, 2010:

• Evolution More Rapid Than Darwin Thought

Posted March 18, 2010:

• Dogs Likely Originated in the Middle East, New Genetic Data Indicate

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