News tagged with evolutionary origin
Reconstructing the evolution of laughter in great apes and humans
Jun 04, 2009 |
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Like human infants, young apes are known to hoot and holler when you tickle them. But is it fair to say that those playful calls are really laughter? The answer to that question is yes, say researchers reporting ...
Research links evolution of fins and limbs with that of gills
Mar 23, 2009 |
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The genetic toolkit that animals use to build fins and limbs is the same genetic toolkit that controls the development of part of the gill skeleton in sharks, according to research to be published in Proceedings of ...
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Book by UC Riverside biologist explains Darwin's 'Origin of Species'
Nov 09, 2009 |
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Many people have tried to read Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species," whose publication celebrates its 150th anniversary this month, but gave up.
Researchers find the root of the evolutionary emergence of vertebrates
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Feb 11, 2008 |
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Dartmouth College researchers and colleagues from the University of Bristol in the U.K. have traced the beginnings of complex life, i.e. vertebrates, to microRNA. The researchers argue that the evolution of microRNAs, which ...
Genetic based human diseases are an ancient evolutionary legacy
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Oct 16, 2008 |
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Tomislav Domazet-Lošo and Diethard Tautz from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön, Germany, have systematically analysed the time of emergence for a large number of genes - genes which ...
A genetic trigger for the Cambrian explosion unraveled?
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Aug 31, 2007 |
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A team of scientists led by young Croatian evolutionary geneticist Tomislav Domazet-Lošo from Ruder Boškovic Institute (RBI) in Zagreb, Croatia, developed a novel methodological approach in evolutionary studies. Using the ...
Charles Darwin really did have advanced ideas about the origin of life
Oct 27, 2009 |
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When Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species 150 years ago, he deliberately avoided the subject of the origin of life. This, coupled with the mention of the 'Creator' in the last paragraph of the book, ...
What are the Chances? Probability Solves an Evolutionary Puzzle
Jan 30, 2009 |
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The origin of species may be almost as random as a throw of the dice. Iosif Pinelis, a professor of mathematical sciences at Michigan Technological University, has worked out a mathematical solution to a biological puzzle: ...
Einstein scientist's finding highlighted as 1 of 15 'evolutionary gems' by Nature
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Jan 12, 2009 |
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A study on genetic variation led by a scientist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University was selected by Nature as one of 15 "evolutionary gems" of the past decade. The 15 studies were selected by Nature ...
Synthetic biology yields clues to evolution and the origin of life
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Feb 15, 2009 |
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Researchers in the field of synthetic biology are still a long way from being able to assemble living cells from scratch in the laboratory. But according to biochemist David Deamer of the University of California, Santa Cruz, ...
New piece in the jigsaw puzzle of human origins
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Jan 15, 2009 |
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In an article in today's Nature, Uppsala researcher Martin Brazeau describes the skull and jaws of a fish that lived about 410 million years ago. The study may give important clues to the origin of jawed vertebrates, and th ...
Color differences within and between species have common genetic origin
Oct 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Spend a little time people-watching at the beach and you're bound to notice differences in the amount, thickness and color of people's body hair. Then head to the zoo and compare people to chimps, our closest ...
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