The oldest evidence of photosynthetic structures reported to date has been identified inside a collection of 1.75-billion-year-old microfossils, a Nature paper reveals. The discovery helps to shed light on the evolution of ...
Evolution
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Significant evolutionary changes happen gradually as opposed to in dramatic "monster" steps, biologists have discovered, answering the long-debated question as to how game-changing innovations like flight, vision, and the ...
Evolution
Jan 4, 2024
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A new study has found that evolution is not as unpredictable as previously thought, which could allow scientists to explore which genes could be useful to tackle real-world issues such as antibiotic resistance, disease, and ...
Evolution
Jan 3, 2024
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Central features of human evolution may stop our species from resolving global environmental problems like climate change, says a recent study led by the University of Maine.
Evolution
Jan 2, 2024
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Most people want to do something about climate change, but lifestyle trade-offs and a narrowing window to enact broad changes to industrial, transportation, and consumption patterns are daunting enough to make them resist.
Evolution
Dec 27, 2023
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Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have made a groundbreaking discovery regarding the origins of non-meteoric water in natural spa waters located in central Japan. Based on numerical modeling, their results suggest ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 27, 2023
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New research from the Museums Victoria Research Institute has turned upside down our previous understanding of the evolution of the largest animals ever––baleen whales.
Plants & Animals
Dec 24, 2023
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Scientists at the CNRS and the University of Montpellier have discovered that flowering plants growing in farmland are increasingly doing without insect pollinators. As reproduction becomes more difficult for them in an environment ...
Evolution
Dec 20, 2023
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Timing is crucial when it comes to understanding the origins of humanity. Developing better dating techniques to discover the ages of key fossils will help scientists to discover how Homo sapiens and our relatives evolved.
Evolution
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Natural selection acts on phenotypes constructed over development, which raises the question of how development affects evolution.
Evolution
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