Origin of Life News

Posted January 31, 2010:

• Rotting Fish Heads: Novel Studies of Decomposition Shed New Light on Our Earliest Fossil Ancestry

Posted January 27, 2010:

• Color of Dinosaur Feathers Identified

Posted January 13, 2010:

• Chimp and Human Y Chromosomes Evolving Faster Than Expected

Posted January 8, 2010:

• What Came First in the Origin of Life? New Study Contradicts the 'Metabolism First' Hypothesis

Posted January 7, 2010:

• Evolutionary Surprise: Eight Percent of Human Genetic Material Comes from a Virus

Posted December 31, 2009:

• Evolution Caught in the Act: Scientists Measure How Quickly Genomes Change
• Using Modern Sequencing Techniques to Study Ancient Humans

Posted December 22, 2009:

• Australian Fossil Unlocks Secrets to the Origin of Whales

Posted December 16, 2009:

• DNA of Jesus-Era Shrouded Man in Jerusalem Reveals Earliest Case of Leprosy

Posted December 15, 2009:

• Ancient Origins of Modern Opossum Revealed
• Why Does a Human Baby Need a Full Year Before Starting to Walk?

Posted December 14, 2009:

• Previously Unknown Gene Is Unique to Placental Mammals
• Mammoths Hung on Longer? Late-Surviving Megafauna Exposed by Ancient DNA in Frozen Soil
• Certain Genes Boost Chances for Distributing Variety of Traits, Drive Evolution
• Prussian Blue Salt Linked to Origin of Life

Posted December 10, 2009:

• Earth's Atmosphere Came from Outer Space, Scientists Find
• Introns -- Nonsense DNA -- May Be More Important to Evolution of Genomes Than Thought
• DNA Sheds New Light on Horse Evolution

Posted December 9, 2009:

• Studying Hair of Ancient Peruvians Answers Questions About Stress

Posted December 1, 2009:

• How Did Flowering Plants Evolve to Dominate Earth?

Posted November 30, 2009:

• New Study Adds to Finding of Ancient Life Signs in Mars Meteorite

Posted November 26, 2009:

• Ecological Speciation by Sexual Selection on Good Genes

Posted November 25, 2009:

• First 'Genetic Map' of Han Chinese May Aid Search for Disease Susceptibility Genes

Posted November 20, 2009:

• Origin of Life: Generating RNA Molecules in Water

Posted November 19, 2009:

• Rich Ore Deposits Linked to Ancient Atmosphere

Posted November 18, 2009:

• Evolution of Highly Toxic Box Jellyfish Unraveled

Posted November 16, 2009:

• Using Darwin in Helping to Define the Biological Essentiality of Silicon and Aluminium
• Slowing Evolution to Stop Drug Resistance

Posted November 11, 2009:

• Earth's Early Ocean Cooled More Than A Billion Years Earlier Than Thought

Posted November 10, 2009:

• Ancient Penguin DNA Raises Doubts About Accuracy of Genetic Dating Techniques

Posted November 6, 2009:

• Seafloor Fossils Provide Clues To Climate Change

Posted November 4, 2009:

• Scientists Launch Effort To Sequence The DNA Of 10,000 Vertebrates

Posted November 3, 2009:

• Inefficient Selection: New Evolutionary Mechanism Accounts For Some Of Human Biological Complexity

Posted October 29, 2009:

• You Say Po-TAY-To, and I Say Po-TAH-To! Language Evolves Through Our Own Use of It
• New Wrinkle In Ancient Ocean Chemistry

Posted October 27, 2009:

• Charles Darwin Really Did Have Advanced Ideas About The Origin Of Life

Posted October 26, 2009:

• A Solution To Darwin's 'Mystery Of The Mysteries' Emerges From The Dark Matter Of The Genome
• Volcanoes Played Pivotal Role In Ancient Ice Age, Mass Extinction

Posted October 21, 2009:

• First Inhabitants Of Canary Islands Were Berbers, Genetic Analysis Reveals

Posted October 20, 2009:

• Tool-Making Human Ancestors Inhabited Grassland Environments Two Million Years Ago
• Ancient Bison Genetic Treasure Trove For Farmers

Posted October 18, 2009:

• Time In A Bottle: Scientists Watch Evolution Unfold

Posted October 16, 2009:

• Novel Evolutionary Theory For The Explosion Of Life
• Seeing Blue: Fish Vision Discovery Makes Waves In Evolutionary Biology

Posted October 13, 2009:

• New Type Of Flying Reptile: Darwin's Pterodactyl Preyed On Flying Dinosaurs

Posted October 11, 2009:

• Banded Rocks Reveal Early Earth Conditions, Changes

Posted October 8, 2009:

• New Mesozoic Mammal: Discovery Illuminates Mammalian Ear Evolution While Dinosaurs Ruled

Posted October 2, 2009:

• Ancient Earth's Magnetic Field Was Structured Like Today's Two-Pole Model

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