(Phys.org) —From the earliest modern humans to the present day, our species has evolved dramatically in both biological and behavioural terms. What forces prompted these momentous changes?

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Jun 03, 2013 4.5 / 5 (4) 1 |

We moan about the wet weather all too often but it may have been crucial in the development of human culture from about 70,000 years onwards, according to scientists reporting in Nature Communications today. ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

May 21, 2013 4.7 / 5 (16) 3 |

(Phys.org) —India's tigers are facing extinction owing to a collapse in the variety of their mating partners, according to new research carried out by scientists at Cardiff University.

Biology - Ecology

May 16, 2013 not rated yet 3 |

(Phys.org) —One of the biggest threats facing amphibian species is the disease chytridiomycosis, which is caused by a fungus known as Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd). An understanding of the evolut ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

May 07, 2013 4.8 / 5 (4) 0 |

(Phys.org) —As is the case in all areas of science, our understanding of evolutionary biology is… well, evolving. Two such areas are macroevolution (any evolutionary change at or above the level of species ...

Biology - Evolution

Mar 18, 2013 3.8 / 5 (6) 0 |

A new study shows that although certain bumble bees are at risk, other bee species in the northeastern United States persisted across a 140-year period despite expanding human populations and changing land ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 04, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

(Phys.org)—A team of researchers from New Zealand and Australia has found that cultural exchange in human populations sometimes occurs at a much slower rate than genetic divergence. As the group explains ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Feb 07, 2013 4.7 / 5 (10) 6 |

The western long-beaked echidna, one of the world's five egg-laying species of mammal, became extinct in Australia thousands of years ago…or did it? Smithsonian scientists and colleagues have found evidence ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jan 02, 2013 5 / 5 (8) 0 |

Josh Miller likes to call himself a conservation paleobiologist. The label makes sense when he explains how he uses bones as up-to-last-season information on contemporary animal populations.

Biology - Ecology

Dec 10, 2012 not rated yet 0

Despite their modern-day diversity of language, lifestyle, and religion, Europe's widespread Romani population shares a common, if complex, past. It all began in northwestern India about 1,500 years ago, according to a study ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Dec 06, 2012 4.2 / 5 (5) 0 |

(Phys.org)—The evening news shows how dangerous a place the world can be. But Dr. Jacob Bock Axelsen of the Biomathematics Unit at Tel Aviv University's Department of Zoology says that individuals are markedly ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Nov 30, 2012 3.3 / 5 (3) 2

(Phys.org)—University of Florida researchers studying river turtles in Missouri found populations of the northern map turtle have not recovered from harvesting in the 1970s.

Biology - Ecology

Sep 25, 2012 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—Research indicates the out-of-Africa spread of humans was dictated by the appearance of favourable climatic windows.

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Sep 17, 2012 4.5 / 5 (8) 7 |

Investigators reporting in the Cell Press journal Trends in Genetics say that new analytical techniques are changing long-held, simplistic views about the evolutionary history of humans in Europe. Their findings indicate that m ...

Biology - Evolution

Aug 14, 2012 4.3 / 5 (4) 0

University of Florida researchers curating a 17-foot-7-inch Burmese python, the largest found in Florida, discovered 87 eggs in the snake, also a state record.

Biology - Ecology

Aug 13, 2012 3.7 / 5 (3) 11 |