(PhysOrg.com) -- The rise of agriculture 10,000 years ago meant the end of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle for which human beings had been optimized by millions of years of evolution and the beginning of an ...

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Mar 12, 2009 4.1 / 5 (10) 7

(Phys.org)—A team of researchers at Michigan State University has documented the step-by-step process in which organisms evolve new functions.

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Sep 19, 2012 4.6 / 5 (9) 1 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Living beings and inanimate phenomena may have more in common than previously thought.

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Apr 28, 2009 4 / 5 (10) 4

A popular view among evolutionary biologists that fundamental genes do not acquire new functions was challenged this week by a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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May 11, 2009 5 / 5 (8) 2

In constructing an evolutionary tree of life, scientists have granted themselves and the rest of us humans a genus, Homo, all to ourselves. But there’s no getting around the fact that we’re in the same family with chimpanzees ...

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Jun 28, 2010 5 / 5 (8) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Harris Bernstein and Carol Bernstein have proposed a new theory on the billion-year-old mystery of sexual reproduction evolution.

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Jul 08, 2010 5 / 5 (8) 1 |

What, in nature, drives the incredible diversity of flowers? This question has sparked debate since Darwin described flower diversification as an 'abominable mystery.' The answer has become a lot clearer, ...

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Sep 16, 2010 4 / 5 (10) 5 |

(Phys.org)—Folmer Bokma, researcher at Umeå University, explains that living species have a limited ability to adapt to the environment. His results suggest that species do not change gradually, as the modern evolutionary ...

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Feb 19, 2013 3.6 / 5 (11) 11 |

What's the secret to surviving during times of environmental change? Evolve…quickly.

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Jun 02, 2009 4.9 / 5 (8) 0

For the first time, scientists have shown that selective breeding of domestic dogs is not only dramatically changing the way animals look but is also driving major changes in the canine brain.

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Jul 28, 2010 4.9 / 5 (8) 5 |

The most popular model used by geneticists for the last 35 years to detect the footprints of human evolution may overlook more common subtle changes, a new international study finds.

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Feb 17, 2011 4.3 / 5 (9) 3 |

Culture is not a trait that is unique to humans. By studying orangutan populations, a team of researchers headed by anthropologist Michael Krützen from the University of Zurich has demonstrated that great apes also have ...

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Oct 20, 2011 4.9 / 5 (8) 8 |

Thanks to a generous gift, National University of Singapore study traced historical shipping records and vindicated Darwin from accusations of deceit.

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Mar 08, 2012 4.3 / 5 (9) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The giant cats that roamed the British Isles, as well as Europe and North America, as recently as 13,000 years ago were lions rather than giant jaguars or tigers, a team led by Oxford University ...

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Mar 31, 2009 4.8 / 5 (8) 0

Scientists have overturned the conventional wisdom that cooperation is essential for the well-being of the whole population, finding evidence that slackers can sometimes help the common good. Researchers, from Imperial College ...

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