News tagged with evolutionary origins
The Worm That Turned Evolutionary Key
Nov 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Keelworm, widespread in the seas and tide-pools around Scotland and the rest of the UK, is unwittingly helping scientists at the University of St Andrews to understand the evolution of modern animals.
Feeding behavior in monkeys and humans have ancient, shared roots
May 20, 2009 |
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Behavioural ecologists working in Bolivia have found that wild spider monkeys control their diets in a similar way to humans, contrary to what has been thought up to now. Rather than trying to maximize their ...
How gorilla gestures point to evolution of human language
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Feb 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of St Andrews have discovered that gorillas have a more extensive repertoire of gestures than any other mammal.
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Swine flu origins revealed
Jun 11, 2009 |
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A new analysis of the current swine-origin H1N1 influenza A virus suggests that transmission to humans occurred several months before recognition of the existing outbreak.
Study: Evolutionary past may determine how we choose leaders
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Why did Barack Obama win the US election and did the fact he is over six feet tall influence the voters? The authors of a paper published in Current Biology this month argue that due to 'a ...
Freshwater herring had salty origin
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Apr 23, 2008 |
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East Africa’s Lake Tanganyika has a highly diverse fauna which closely resembles marine animals. A researcher at the University of Zurich has traced the origins of the freshwater herring of the Lake to a marine invasion which ...
Cretaceous octopus with ink and suckers -- the world's least likely fossils?
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 17, 2009 |
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New finds of 95 million year old fossils reveal much earlier origins of modern octopuses. These are among the rarest and unlikeliest of fossils. The chances of an octopus corpse surviving long enough to be fossilized are ...
New piece in the jigsaw puzzle of human origins
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
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 ...
Med students to study dinosaur ailments
Mar 01, 2006 |
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The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is launching a unique program to teach medical students the evolutionary history of humans and animals.
Psychologists shed light on origins of morality
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Feb 26, 2009 |
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In everyday language, people sometimes say that immoral behaviours "leave a bad taste in your mouth". But this may be more than a metaphor according to new scientific evidence from the University of Toronto that shows a ...
Scientists uncover evolutionary origins of prion disease gene
Sep 28, 2009 |
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A University of Toronto-led team has uncovered the evolutionary ancestry of the prion gene, which may reveal new understandings of how the prion protein causes diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also ...
Origins of nervous system found in genes of sea sponge
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Jun 06, 2007 |
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Scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara have discovered significant clues to the evolutionary origins of the nervous system by studying the genome of a sea sponge, a member of a group considered to be among ...
Altruism: Genetic or Cultural Evolution?
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The origins of altruism, the willingness to make personal sacrifices for the benefit of others often unknown to us, has perplexed evolutionary social scientists and biologists for years.
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