Emiliano Bruner, a paleoneurologist at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), has just published an overview article in the Journal of Comparative Neurology on studies of changes in brain ...
Evolution
May 1, 2019
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In his 1989 book Wonderful Life, evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould famously argued that, if we could "replay the tape," life on Earth would evolve to be fundamentally different each time.
Evolution
Apr 21, 2022
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A new study from SciLifeLab at Uppsala University published in PLOS ONE shows that genes crucial for vision were multiplied in the early stages of vertebrate evolution and acquired distinct functions leading to the sophisticated ...
Biotechnology
Mar 27, 2015
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A new theory of plant evolution suggests that the 400 million-year drive of flora across the globe may not have been propelled by the above-ground traits we can see easily, but by underground adaptations that allowed plants ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 21, 2018
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The population of Yelkouan Shearwater of the French island of Le Levant is seriously under threat due to the invasion of wild cats, according to a French and Spanish joint study. The archipelago is home to the main colonies ...
Ecology
Feb 1, 2013
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Charles Darwin may have been born 200 years ago come Feb. 12, but his theory of evolution remains an everyday touchstone for modern biologists. And while the Origin of Species author might not have known the term "global ...
Feb 2, 2009
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The climate is changing, and heatwaves are becoming more common and intense as a result. For the Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest structure of living tissue, the consequences are clear. The reef suffered its third ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 16, 2020
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For centuries, humans pursued the "fountain of youth" in the quest for longer lives. More recently, curiosity has been reignited among the scientific community thanks to genome sequencing technologies that are facilitating ...
Evolution
Nov 15, 2023
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Researchers investigating the relationship between biogeography and endemism in the Pilbara have uncovered two surprising discoveries.
Plants & Animals
Aug 9, 2013
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Liken it to a case of where two genes are better than one. Scientists have found a class of genes, called small-scale duplication genes, or SSDs, that are important for adapting to novel environments and surviving environmental ...
Biotechnology
Apr 15, 2014
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