News tagged with mammalian evolution
Meat eating led to earlier weaning, helped humans spread across globe
When early humans became carnivores, their higher-quality diet allowed mothers to wean babies earlier and have more children, with potentially profound effects on population dynamics and the course of human evolution, according ...
Apr 18, 2012 |
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Study provides new insights into an ancient mechanism of mammalian evolution
A team of geneticists and computational biologists in the UK today reveal how an ancient mechanism is involved in gene control and continues to drive genome evolution. The new study is published in the journal ...
Jan 12, 2012 |
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Platypus helps shed new light on mammalian evolution
(PhysOrg.com) -- A large international study published today in Nature has revealed new insights into how the regulation of the entire genome has changed during mammalian evolution over the past 200 millio ...
Oct 20, 2011 |
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Two-million-year-old evidence shows tool-making hominins inhabited grassland environments
In an article published in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE on October 21, 2009, Dr Thomas Plummer of Queens College at the City University of New York, Dr Richard Potts of the Smithsonian Institution Nation ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Study links selection for pathogen-resistance with increased risk for inflammatory disease
New research reveals that a simple laboratory assay detects a genetic variation in host response to bacterial infection that is associated with an increased susceptibility for inflammatory disease. The study, published by ...
Aug 06, 2009 |
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Seeing beyond the invisible: Scientists find formula to uncover our planet’s past and help predict its future
(PhysOrg.com) -- Studies of climate evolution and the ecology of past-times are often hampered by lost information - lost variables needed to complete the picture have been long thought untraceable but scientists ...
May 27, 2009 |
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