Origin of Life News

Posted February 12, 2007:

• Mummy's Amazing American Maize
• No Missing Link? Evolutionary Changes Occur Suddenly, Professor Says

Posted February 8, 2007:

• Largest North America Climate Change In 65 Million Years, Study Shows

Posted February 6, 2007:

• Human Proteins Evolving Slowly Thanks To Multitasking Genes

Posted February 5, 2007:

• Ancient Rocks Show How Young Earth Avoided Becoming Giant Snowball

Posted January 29, 2007:

• Does Evolution Select For Faster Evolvers? Horizontal Gene Transfer Adds To Complexity, Speed Of Evolution

Posted January 21, 2007:

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Altruism: Study Explains How Costly Traits Evolve

Posted January 16, 2007:

• Closing A Loophole In The RNA World Hypothesis

Posted January 12, 2007:

• 'Out Of Africa' Theory Boost: Skull Dating Suggests Modern Humans Evolved In Africa

Posted January 8, 2007:

• Annual Plants May Cope With Global Warming Better Than Long-living Species

Posted December 28, 2006:

• Mystery Solved: Chemicals Made Stradivarius Violins Unique, Says Professor

Posted December 20, 2006:

• Software, Evolution And Micro-inversions: Improving The Building Of Phylogenetic Trees
• Human-chimp Difference May Be Bigger
• History-hunting Geneticists Can Still Follow Familiar Trail

Posted December 18, 2006:

• New Male-specific Gene In Algae Unveils An Origin Of Male And Female

Posted December 14, 2006:

• Two Studies On Bee Evolution Reveal Surprises

Posted December 12, 2006:

• New Insights Into The Origin Of Life On Earth

Posted December 11, 2006:

• From Hot Springs To Rice Farms, Scientists Reveal New Insights Into The Secret Lives Of Archaea

Posted December 10, 2006:

• Solving Darwin's Dilemma: Oxygen May Be The Clue To First Appearance Of Large Animals

Posted December 9, 2006:

• Geobiologists Solve 'Catch-22 Problem' Concerning The Rise Of Atmospheric Oxygen

Posted December 8, 2006:

• Ancient Ape Ruled Out Of Man's Ancestral Line

Posted December 7, 2006:

• Ancient Climate Change May Portend Toasty Future

Posted December 5, 2006:

• NASA Scientists Find Primordial Organic Matter In Meteorite

Posted December 1, 2006:

• Evolution Of Influenza A Virus

Posted November 24, 2006:

• Genetic Variation: We're More Different Than We Thought

Posted November 20, 2006:

• Origins Of Life: New Approach Helps Expand Study Of Living Fossils

Posted November 17, 2006:

• Origin Of Life: The Search For The First Genetic Material
• Unraveling Where Chimp And Human Brains Diverge

Posted November 16, 2006:

• Neanderthal Genome Sequencing Yields Surprising Results And Opens A New Door To Future Studies

Posted November 15, 2006:

• Milky Way Shaped Life On Earth

Posted November 13, 2006:

• More Species In The Tropics Because Species Have Been There Longer, Study Suggests
• Sperm Proteome Gives 'Tantalizing Glimpse' Towards The Origin Of Sex

Posted November 9, 2006:

• Scientists Establish Connection Between Life Today And Ancient Changes In Ocean Chemistry

Posted November 8, 2006:

• Cold War Invisible Ink Secrets Unlocked

Posted November 7, 2006:

• Early Earth Haze May Have Spurred Life

Posted November 6, 2006:

• Novel Experiment Documents Evolution Of Genome In Near-real Time

Posted November 3, 2006:

• Neuron Cell Stickiness May Hold Key To Evolution Of The Human Brain

Posted October 31, 2006:

• Scientists Convert Modern Enzyme Into Its Hypothesized Ancestor
• Phoenix Rising: Scientists Resuscitate A 5 Million-year-old Retrovirus

Posted October 29, 2006:

• Social Amoebas' Family Tree Reveals Evolutionary Clues

Posted October 26, 2006:

• Scientists Find Lamprey A 'Living Fossil': 360 Million-year-old Fish Hasn't Evolved Much
• Research Discovers Oldest Bee, Evolutionary Link

Posted October 25, 2006:

• Oldest Complex Organic Molecules Found In Ancient Fossils
• Viral Marker Of Human Migration Suspect

Posted October 24, 2006:

• Sunflower Speciation Highlights Roles For Transposable Elements In Evolution

Posted October 23, 2006:

• Discovery About Evolution Of Fungi Has Implications For Humans

Posted October 19, 2006:

• West Australian Fossil Find Rewrites Land Mammal Evolution
• Earliest Fungi May Have Found Multiple Solutions To Propagation On Land

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