Groundbreaking fossil discovery sheds light on the origins of lizards
A fossil discovery from Scotland has provided new information on the early evolution of lizards, during the time of the dinosaurs.
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Joseph Shavit
- Oct 20, 2022
How the Black Death shaped the evolution of human immunity
DNA from victims and survivors of the Black Death pandemic has identified key genetic differences that determined who lived and who died.
Joseph Shavit
- Oct 20, 2022
Meet the world's first Neandertal family
Ancient genomes of 13 Neandertals provide a rare snapshot of their community and social organization over hundreds of thousands of years.
Joseph Shavit
- Oct 15, 2022
Brocolli gas provides compelling evidence of life on other planets
These types of gases are made when organisms add a carbon and three hydrogen atoms to an undesirable chemical element.
Joseph Shavit
- Oct 11, 2022
Researchers finally answer the question of how life on Earth began
The missing link isn’t a not-yet-discovered fossil, after all. It’s a tiny, self-replicating globule called a coacervate droplet.
Joseph Shavit
- Oct 10, 2022
Researchers discover that genetic mutations in humans aren't always random
A new study by a team of researchers from Israel and Ghana has brought the first evidence of nonrandom mutation in human genes.
Joseph Shavit
- Oct 2, 2022
Ancient 'sharks' appeared much earlier than previously thought
The first appearance of shark-like ‘jawed fish’ may have happened some 15 million years earlier than previously thought.
Joseph Shavit
- Sep 21, 2022
Modern humans generate more brain neurons than Neandertals
Researchers from Dresden uncover a greater neuron production in the frontal lobe during brain development in modern humans than Neandertals
Joseph Shavit
- Sep 14, 2022
Harvard study identifies why humans walk upright
If evolutionary biologists were to rank the body parts that make us quintessentially human, the pelvis would place close to the top.
Joseph Shavit
- Aug 22, 2022
First-ever discovery finds genetic mutations in humans aren't always random
Researchers find the first evidence of nonrandom mutation in human genes, challenging a core assumption at the heart of evolutionary theory
Joseph Shavit
- Aug 11, 2022
The fundamental question of how life on Earth began is finally answered
Chemical evolution was first proposed in the 1920s as the idea that life first originated with the formation of macromolecules.
Joshua Shavit
- Aug 4, 2022
Mammals were not the first creatures on Earth to be warm-blooded
Karoo fossils provide “smoking gun” on clues to when warm-bloodedness evolved in pre-mammalian ancestors according to researchers.
Joseph Shavit
- Jul 25, 2022
New physics law could predict genetic mutations
The new study could have big implications for genome research, evolutionary biology, computing, big data, physics and cosmology.
Joseph Shavit
- Jul 22, 2022
When did the genetic variations that make us human emerge?
A study has made an estimation of the time when some of the genetic variants that characterise our species emerged.
Joseph Shavit
- Jul 15, 2022
Finally an answer to the fundamental question of how life on Earth began
The missing link isn’t a not-yet-discovered fossil, after all. It’s a tiny, self-replicating globule called a coacervate droplet.
Joseph Shavit
- Jul 14, 2022
New evolutionary theory says genetic mutations aren't always random
A new study has brought the first evidence of nonrandom mutation in human genes, challenging a core assumption at the heart of evolution.
Joshua Shavit
- Jul 14, 2022
Animals may evolve faster than previously thought
How fast can wild animals adapt? Faster than previously thought based on a global study examining rates of evolution in 15 species.
Joshua Shavit
- Jul 14, 2022
500-million-year-old fossil prompts a rethink of the evolution of insects
It’s what’s inside Stanleycaris’ head that has researchers most excited. Remains of the brain are still preserved after 506 million years.
Joshua Shavit
- Jul 10, 2022
‘Supergene’ wreaks havoc in the human genome
The human genome is littered with “selfish genetic elements,” which do not seem to benefit their hosts, but instead seek only to propagate.
Joseph Shavit
- Jun 20, 2022
Musical rhythm may be genetically inherited, study finds
Moving in time to musical rhythm is so automatic that people are often not conscious of the exquisite coordination that it demands.
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