Penguins that died 44,000 years ago in Antarctica have provided extraordinary frozen DNA samples that challenge the accuracy of traditional genetic aging measurements, and suggest those approaches have been ...

Biology - Evolution

Nov 10, 2009 4.7 / 5 (23) 16

An international team of researchers including Svante Pääbo and Qiaomei Fu of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, sequenced nuclear and mitochondrial DNA that had ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Jan 21, 2013 4.8 / 5 (20) 21 |

(Phys.org) —A new study conducted by a team of American and Greek researchers has found that the people of the ancient Minoan civilization living on the island of Crete most likely came from Europe. In ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

May 15, 2013 4.8 / 5 (13) 4 |

(Phys.org)—A research team working in Israel has found what might possibly be an example of evolutionary divergence in action – and it's not due to a natural barrier. In their paper published in the Proceedings of ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jan 30, 2013 4.8 / 5 (11) 0 |

The initial peopling of North America from Asia occurred approximately 15,000-18,000 years ago, however estimations of the genetic diversity of the first settlers have remained inaccurate. In a report published online today ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Jun 28, 2010 4.6 / 5 (10) 14 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- The molecular caps at the ends of chromosomes that protect humans against cancer and premature cellular aging show a surprising inability to protect themselves against ultraviolet radiation, ...

Medicine & Health - Genetics

Apr 30, 2010 5 / 5 (8) 6 |

Researchers at the University of Leeds have devised a more accurate method of dating ancient human migration - even when no corroborating archaeological evidence exists.

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Jun 04, 2009 4.3 / 5 (9) 0

Genetic research indicates that Australian Aborigines initially arrived via south Asia. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology have found telltale mutations in modern-day Indian populations that a ...

Biology - Evolution

Jul 21, 2009 3.8 / 5 (9) 1

The last known population of woolly mammoths, roaming a remote Arctic island long after humans invented writing, were wiped out quickly, reports a study released Wednesday.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 31, 2010 4.9 / 5 (7) 3

An endangered species of horse -- known as Przewalski's horse -- is much more distantly related to the domestic horse than researchers had previously hypothesized, reports a team of investigators led by Kateryna ...

Biology - Evolution

Sep 07, 2011 4.9 / 5 (7) 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Newcastle University have developed a pioneering technique which enables them for the first time to successfully transfer DNA between two human eggs. The technique has the potential to help ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Apr 14, 2010 4.8 / 5 (6) 0 |

The Neanderthals inhabited a vast geographical area extending from Europe to western Asia and the Middle East 30,000 to 100,000 years ago. Now, a group of researchers are questioning whether or not the Neanderthals ...

Biology - Evolution

Apr 15, 2009 4.7 / 5 (6) 1

A typical human cell contains hundreds of mitochondria—energy-producing organelles—that continually fuse and divide. Relatively little is known, however, about why mitochondria undergo this behavior.

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Apr 15, 2010 5 / 5 (5) 0 |

The ancestor of all hammerhead sharks probably appeared abruptly in Earth's oceans about 20 million years ago and was as big as some contemporary hammerheads, according to a new study led by the University ...

Biology - Evolution

May 18, 2010 5 / 5 (5) 0 |

Large numbers of people moved between Africa and Europe during recent and well-documented time periods such as the Roman Empire, the Arab conquest, and the slave trade, and genetic evidence of these migrations lives on in ...

Biology - Evolution

Mar 26, 2012 3 / 5 (7) 1 |