Scientists have shown that some key points of animal evolution—like the ones leading to humans or insects—were associated with a large loss of genes in the genome. The study, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, compared ...
Evolution
Feb 25, 2020
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A new study from Harvard University and the Field Museum of Natural History sheds light on how and when changes in the spine happened in mammal evolution. The research reveals how a combination of developmental changes and ...
Evolution
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Despite creative efforts to tackle it, belief in conspiracy theories, alternative facts and fake news show no sign of abating. This is clearly a huge problem, as seen when it comes to climate change, vaccines and expertise ...
Evolution
Dec 16, 2019
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Convergent origins of new mechanisms to supply oxygen to the retina were directly linked to concurrent enhancements in the functional anatomy of the eye.
Evolution
Dec 10, 2019
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Are we alone in the universe? It comes down to whether intelligence is a probable outcome of natural selection, or an improbable fluke. By definition, probable events occur frequently, improbable events occur rarely—or ...
Evolution
Oct 18, 2019
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To understand the environmental pressures that shaped human evolution, scientists must first piece together the details of the ancient plant and animal communities that our fossil ancestors lived in over the past 7 million ...
Archaeology
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No more than 540 million years ago there was a huge boom in the diversity of animals on Earth. The first larger animals evolved in what is today known as the Cambrian explosion. In the time that followed, the animals evolved ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 10, 2019
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New research from the University of Tübingen indicates that the Thai-Malay Peninsula—where parts of Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand are located—was at least partly an open savannah during the Ice Age, when the peninsula ...
Archaeology
Aug 22, 2019
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One of the most exciting discoveries in genome research was that the last common ancestor of all multicellular animals—which lived about 600 million years ago—already possessed an extremely complex genome. Many of the ...
Evolution
Aug 5, 2019
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Scientists at The University of Queensland have upended biologists' century-old understanding of the evolutionary history of animals.
Evolution
Jun 12, 2019
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