Scientists may have solved a long-standing puzzle over why conditions on Earth have remained stable enough for life to evolve over billions of years. The 'Gaia' hypothesis proposed that living things interacting with inorganic ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 2, 2018
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Plants use many of the same methods as animals to camouflage themselves, a new study shows.
Plants & Animals
Jun 6, 2018
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It turns out that nobody knows when rabbits were domesticated. Despite a well-cited story of the domestic bunny's origins, a review published on February 14 in Trends in Ecology and Evolution finds that historical and archaeological ...
Evolution
Feb 14, 2018
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In 1859, Charles Darwin included a novel tree of life in his trailblazing book on the theory of evolution, On the Origin of Species. Now, scientists from Rutgers University-New Brunswick and their international collaborators ...
Evolution
Jun 7, 2017
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Humans rely on things that come from nature—including clean air, water, food, and timber. But how can we tell if these natural services that people rely on, are at risk of being lost, potentially permanently?
Environment
Feb 9, 2017
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Scientists increasingly realize the importance of gut and other microbes to our health and well-being, but one UC Berkeley biologist is asking whether these microbes—our microbiota—might also have played a role in shaping ...
Evolution
Apr 21, 2016
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While pollination is a subject that most of us don't give much consideration, behind the scenes it plays a significant role in the production of the food we consume each day.
Plants & Animals
Apr 8, 2016
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Evolution may be more intelligent than we thought, according to a University of Southampton professor.
Evolution
Dec 18, 2015
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New techniques for visualizing fossils are transforming our understanding of evolutionary history according to a paper published by leading palaeontologists at the University of Bristol.
Archaeology
May 22, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Recently evaluated evidence suggests that organisms bred from different genetic lines have evolutionary advantages over more closely related members of the same species when colonising new environments.
Ecology
May 1, 2014
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