Sex Optional For Evolutionary Adaptation
The pond-dwelling microscopic invertebrates known as bdelloid rotifers gave up on sexual reproduction more than 40 million years ago but…
Chill Out To Evolve
Species don’t evolve faster in warmer climes as had been thought; rather, it appears to be cooler, more temperate, regions…
St Valentine’s Day Sperm Massacre
Valentine’s Day isn’t about flowers and chocolates for researchers from the Florida Atlantic University (FAU), instead, they’ve been doing some…
Prof Questions Darwinian Dogma
In a new paper that challenges the Darwinian model of evolution, University of Pittsburgh professor, Jeffrey H. Schwartz, contends that…
Scientists Mull Why Size Matters
Researchers from all over the world have banded together to try and answer one of biology’s most intriguing questions. Why…
Human Diaspora May Have Occurred Later Than Previously Thought
Modern humans spread out of Africa up to 50,000 years later than previously thought, say anthropologists. Three new studies in…
Human Brain Evolution Slows To A Crawl
The human brain underwent explosive growth after we split from our chimp cousins, but the pace of evolutionary change among…
Scientists Explore Manipulation Of Cancer Evolution
The dynamics of evolution are as evident in cancerous tumors as in any other ecosystem and oncologists hope that with…
Lizards Pushed Into Evolutionary Fast Lane
Evolutionary change is generally considered to be a pedestrian affair, with changes occurring over millennia. But evolutionary biologists from Harvard…
Creature With No Brain Makes New Phylum A No-Brainer
A worm-like creature from the depths of the North Atlantic has led to the establishment of a new phylum, a…
Stealth And Sacrifice Show Evolution At Work
Male crickets on the Hawaiian island of Kauai have undergone a sudden heritable change that has rendered most of them…
Homo Sapiens Brow-Beaten By Neanderthals
We modern-day humans think that we’re pretty damn good looking compared to our brow-ridged, potato nosed Neanderthal relatives, but new…
Star Formation Theories Set For Significant Revision
Observations from NASA’s Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) satellite indicate that far more deuterium (“heavy” hydrogen) remains in our Milky…
America: In Evolution We Don’t Trust
Given that more than half of all American adults aren’t aware that the Earth goes around the Sun once a…
Early Humans And Chimps Much More Than Just Good Friends
Scientists at MIT and Harvard say the evolutionary split between humans and chimpanzees is much more recent – and more…
Primordial Soup-In-A-Cup
The beginning of life on Earth is a hotly contested area of science (not to mention religion); with current theories…
Evolution Makes A Mockery Of Fishing Policy
The fishing mantra of harvesting the largest individuals from a fish population introduces genetic changes that harm the overall fish…
Sex – Evolution’s Janitor
Asexual reproduction leads to a faster accumulation of bad mutations, says a report in this week’s issue of Science. Indiana…
More Evidence Of Our Close Relationship With Chimps
The theory that humans and chimpanzees may be more closely related to each other than chimps are to the other…
Darwin’s Dilemma Solved?
The New York Academy of Sciences Readers & Writers lecture series will play host to biologists Marc Kirschner and John…
Balls vs Brains In Batty Battle For Evolutionary Success
Without doubt, the most intriguing evolutionary pressure of all is sexual selection. The how and why behind our choice of…
Drug Gene Link To Human Evolution
Humans are much more perceptive than other primates (well, some of us anyway), but the list of genes known to…
Oxygen Increase Behind Rise Of Mammals
Researchers measuring levels of carbon 13 – a byproduct of photosynthesis – in deep-sea core samples going back 205 million…
3 And 7 Lucky Numbers For Dimensional Evolution
Researchers from the University of Washington and Harvard University have turned up some interesting findings about possible realities based on…
Insight Into Eye Evolution Deals Blow To Intelligent Design
How complex and physiologically remarkable structures such as the human eye could evolve has long been a question that has…
Key Points In Brain Evolution Identified
A research team from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, led by Bruce T. Lahn, has uncovered some fascinating genetic pointers…
Evolution Appears To Be A Start-Stop Affair
Some regions of the human genome have been hotspots for acquiring duplicated DNA sequences, but only at specific time-points during…
Inherited Disease Findings Stir Evolutionary Debate
A disease you are suffering from could be the result of your great-grandmother being exposed to a toxin. Washington State…
For Some Females, Size Does Matter
How much do females really care about their mate’spenis size? A new study has shown that for some fish species,…
Evolution Of Human Brain Unique
The genes that control brain development evolved much more rapidly in humans than in other mammals because of natural selection…