Origin of Life News

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

Posted October 18, 2006:

• Learning To Live With Oxygen On Early Earth

Posted October 13, 2006:

• Antique Whale Oil Provides Insights To Origin Of Pre-Industrial Chemicals
• Comparing Chimp, Human DNA

Posted October 8, 2006:

• Hail To The Hornworts: New Plant Family Tree Sheds Light On Evolution Of Life Cycles

Posted October 5, 2006:

• Tiny Tampa Bay Fish Key To Evolution Of Immune System
• How Did Bilaterally Symmetric Flowers Evolve From Radially Symmetric Ones?

Posted October 4, 2006:

• Genome Archaeology Illuminates The Genetic Engineering Debate

Posted October 3, 2006:

• Uncovering DNA's 'Sweet' Secret

Posted October 2, 2006:

• A Plan For Reintroducing Megafauna To North America

Posted September 29, 2006:

• Scientist's Persistence Sheds Light On Marine Science Riddle

Posted September 28, 2006:

• How Nature Tinkers With The Cellular Clock

Posted September 23, 2006:

• 'Killer' B Cells Demonstrate Evolutionary Link Between Fish And Mammal Immune Systems

Posted September 19, 2006:

• Don't Care For Broccoli? A Bitter Taste Receptor Gene's Variation Suggests An Evolutionary Excuse

Posted September 18, 2006:

• Single Molecular 'Mark' Seen As Pivotal For Genome Compaction In Spores And Sperm

Posted September 16, 2006:

• Rare Evolutionary Example Of 'Recent' Embosymbiont Offers Clues To How Plants Came To Be

Posted September 8, 2006:

• Modern Humans, Not Neandertals, May Be Evolution's 'Odd Man Out'

Posted September 5, 2006:

• Researcher Studies Gene Families To Explore Diversity And Evolution

Posted August 24, 2006:

• Sulfur Signature Changes Thoughts On Atmospheric Oxygen

Posted August 17, 2006:

• Newly Discovered Gene May Hold Clues To Evolution Of Human Brain Capacity

Posted August 11, 2006:

• Americans Less Likely To Accept Evolution Than Europeans

Posted August 7, 2006:

• Scientists Reverse Evolution: Ancient Gene Reconstructed From Descendants

Posted August 2, 2006:

• Genetic Research Reinforces Theory Of Evolution

Posted August 1, 2006:

• Evidence Of Rapid Evolution Is Found At The Tips Of Chromosomes

Posted July 26, 2006:

• Scientists Discover Evolutionary Origin Of Fins, Limbs

Posted July 21, 2006:

• Scientists Strengthen Case For Life On Earth More Than 3.8 Billion Years Ago

Posted July 20, 2006:

• Neandertal Genome To Be Deciphered

Posted June 12, 2006:

• Parallel Evolution: Proteins Do It, Too

Posted June 7, 2006:

• 100,000 Year-old DNA Sequence Allows New Look At Neandertal's Genetic Diversity

Posted June 6, 2006:

• Study Shows Our Ancestors Survived 'Snowball Earth'

Posted May 26, 2006:

• Ancient Etruscans Unlikely Ancestors Of Modern Tuscans, Statistical Testing Reveals

Posted May 23, 2006:

• How Ancient Whales Lost Their Legs, Got Sleek And Conquered The Oceans

Posted May 17, 2006:

• South Pacific Plant May Be Missing Link In Evolution Of Flowering Plants

Posted May 16, 2006:

• Small Molecule Interactions Were Central To The Origin Of Life

Posted May 15, 2006:

• How Did Cactuses Evolve?

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