Did a common childhood illness take down the neanderthals?
A 21st century nuisance for parents may have proved deadly to early manCredit: SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University BROOKLYN, NY ...
Tag: Evolution
Coral reefs and squat lobsters flourished 150 million years ago
Squat lobsters have a colorful history going back to the dinosaur era -- a peak of diversityCredit: Cristina Robins & ...
Extinct human species gave modern humans an immunity boost
Credit: Owen Siggs Findings from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research show modern humans acquired a gene variant from Denisovans ...
Perot museum unveils exhibition details for origins: Fossils from the cradle of humankind
General public can learn what they'll experience when the world-exclusive exhibition of 'one of the greatest fossil discoveries of the ...
Guppies teach us why evolution happens
Places, not predators, are evolution catalystsCredit: David Reznick / UCR Guppies, a perennial pet store favorite, have helped a UC ...
Fruit flies’ microbiomes shape their evolution
Biologists from the School of Arts and Sciences observed distinct shifts in the genomes of fruit flies fed different bacterial ...
Rare 10 million-year-old fossil unearths new view of human evolution
New study of an ape-like pelvis suggests human ancestors might not have been built like modern African apesCredit: Illustration courtesy ...
Did microbes assist life in colonizing land?
Comparative microbiome study enables researchers of the Kiel based CRC 1182 to gain new insights into the course of evolutionCredit: ...
Victorian hog deer genetics revealed
Credit: La Trobe University Australian researchers looking for a genetic lifeline to endangered hog deer species endemic to Pakistan, northern ...
Scientists identify previously unknown ‘hybrid zone’ between hummingbird species
Credit: Brian Myers We usually think of a species as being reproductively isolated - that is, not mating with other ...
Hiding in plain sight
Early rice farmers unwittingly selected for weedy impostersCredit: Jordan R. Brock/Washington University Early rice growers unwittingly gave barnyard grass a ...
Palmer amaranth’s molecular secrets reveal troubling potential
Credit: Pat Tranel, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Corn, soybean, and cotton farmers shudder at the thought of Palmer ...
The sleep neuron in threadworms is also a stop neuron
Sleep or stop? The RIS neuron has both functions; publication in Nature CommunicationsCredit: Wagner Steuer Costa Wagner Steuer Costa in ...
Multidrug resistance: Not as recent as we thought
Researchers from Osaka University find that a relatively ancient drug efflux pump in Haemophilus influenzae confers resistance to the same ...