Origin of Life News

Posted September 21, 2004:

• Genes Expose Secrets Of Sex On The Side

Posted September 13, 2004:

• A New Tribe?

Posted September 7, 2004:

• Heart Gene Yields Insights Into Evolution, Disease Risk

Posted September 6, 2004:

• Battle Of The Bubbles May Have Sparked Evolution

Posted September 3, 2004:

• Neanderthal Life No Tougher Than That Of 'Modern' Inuits

Posted August 20, 2004:

• Prions Act As Stepping Stones In Evolution

Posted August 19, 2004:

• Pineal Gland Evolved To Improve Vision, According To New Theory

Posted August 18, 2004:

• Gene Duplication Allowed Pigs To Have More Babies

Posted August 17, 2004:

• Dingo’s Mother A Chinese Domesticated Dog

Posted August 10, 2004:

• Evolvability Could Be A Driving Force In Drug Resistance

Posted August 5, 2004:

• Study Suggests Humans Can Speed Evolution

Posted June 29, 2004:

• Earliest Evidence Of Hereditary Genetic Disorder Discovered

Posted June 11, 2004:

• Chemists Retrieve Clues To Ancient Ocean Chemistry And Global Greenhouse From Cretaceous Sediments

Posted April 23, 2004:

• Discovery Offers Clues To Origin Of Life

Posted April 15, 2004:

• Researchers Close In On How Gene Changes Lead To New Traits

Posted April 8, 2004:

• Barren Siberia, Of All Places, May Be Original Home To Animal Life

Posted April 2, 2004:

• New Fossil Links Four-legged Land Animals To Ancient Fish
• UC San Diego Bioinformatics Experts Help Reconstruct The Genomic Makeup Of Our Ancestors

Posted April 1, 2004:

• Ferns Diversified In Shadow Of Flowering Plants

Posted March 26, 2004:

• NIST-led Research De-mystifies Origins Of 'Junk' DNA

Posted March 8, 2004:

• Baker's Yeast Rises From Genome Duplication

Posted March 5, 2004:

• New Evidence Suggests Early Oceans Bereft Of Oxygen For Eons; Early Life May Have Lived Very Differently Than Life Today

Posted February 17, 2004:

• Human Evolution At The Crossroads: Integrating Genetics And Paleontology

Posted February 16, 2004:

• Rutgers Researcher Offers A New Perspective On Human Evolution

Posted January 13, 2004:

• Researchers Show Evolutionary Theory Adds Up

Posted December 4, 2003:

• New Fossils From Ethiopia Open A Window On Africa's "Missing Years"
• Ocean Currents Slow Adaptation Of Tree-dwelling Lizards, UCLA Study Finds; Research Sheds New Light On Island Evolution

Posted September 19, 2003:

• Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Greater 1.4 Billion Years Ago

Posted August 5, 2003:

• Discoveries Made About Cellular Reaction Processes From Ancient Life

Posted May 21, 2003:

• DNA Demands Chimps Be Grouped In The Human Genus, Say Wayne State Researchers

Posted April 8, 2003:

• University Of Georgia Scientists Plot Key Events In Plants' Evolution

Posted March 27, 2003:

• New Species Of Earliest-known Salamanders Found In China

Posted January 8, 2003:

• Finding Life Away From Earth Will Be Tough Task, Says Noted Paleontologist

Posted December 26, 2002:

• Did Early Humans Mate With The Locals? Human Genome Data Cast Doubt On "Replacement Theory" Of Human Evolution

Posted December 9, 2002:

• Methane-Based Greenhouse And Anti-Greenhouse Events Led To Stable Archean Climate

Posted December 4, 2002:

• Revolutionary New Theory For Origins Of Life On Earth

Posted September 4, 2002:

• Dinosaur Ancestor's Vision Possibly Nocturnal; Researchers Recreate 240-Million Year Old Protein In Test Tube

Posted August 23, 2002:

• Scientists Confirm Age Of The Oldest Meteorite Collision On Earth

Posted August 8, 2002:

• Computational Geneticists Revisit A Mystery In Evolution

Posted August 2, 2002:

• Retroviruses Shows That Human-Specific Variety Developed When Humans, Chimps Diverged

Posted July 23, 2002:

• Dust In "Earth's Attic" Could Hold Evidence Of Planet's Earliest Life

Posted May 10, 2002:

• Researchers Discover Clues To Whale Evolution

Posted March 28, 2002:

• University Of Alaska Biologist Tracking Extinct Bears

Posted March 14, 2002:

• UCLA Scientists, Colleagues Substantiate Biological Origin Of Earliest Fossils

Posted March 8, 2002:

• Humans Emerged "Out Of Africa" Again And Again

Posted October 17, 2001:

• Rafting Rodents From Africa May Have Been Ancestors Of South American Species

Posted September 20, 2001:

• New Fossils Suggest Whales And Hippos Are Close Kin

Posted August 10, 2001:

• First Land Plants And Fungi Changed Earth's Climate, Paving The Way For Explosive Evolution Of Land Animals, New Gene Study Suggests

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