Bacteria could learn to predict the future
New research from Washington University in St. Louis suggests that bacteria could learn from the past to predict the future.
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Joshua Shavit
- Sep 7, 2021
Meet the fish guarding genetic secrets that can unravel humanity’s evolution
As we live and breathe, ancient-looking fish known as bowfin are guarding genetic secrets that that can help unravel humanity’s evolution
Joseph Shavit
- Aug 19, 2021
What a new prehistoric ‘Hobbit’ creature tells us about evolution, mammals and dinosaurs
Research describes the discovery of three new species and hints at rapid evolution immediately after the mass extinction of the dinosaurs.
Joseph Shavit
- Aug 17, 2021
Researchers publish new theory of life’s multiple origins
The history of life on Earth has often been likened to a four-billion-year-old torch relay. One flame, lit at the beginning of the chain.
Joseph Shavit
- Aug 6, 2021
Cave painting show Neanderthals were not the boorish relatives of Homo sapiens
Neanderthals, long perceived to have been unsophisticated and brutish, really did paint stalagmites in a Spanish cave 60,000 years ago.
Joseph Shavit
- Jul 9, 2021
Changes in Earth's orbit enabled the emergence of complex life
Scientists at the University of Southampton have discovered that changes in Earth's orbit may have allowed complex life to emerge and thrive
Joseph Shavit
- Jun 26, 2021
Scientists hail Dragon Man skull discovery as a new species and Homo Sapiens closest relative
A near-perfectly preserved ancient human fossil known as the Harbin cranium sits in the Geoscience Museum in Hebei GEO University
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