Tag: Evolution

DNA sequences from Indonesia and New Guinea reveal new branches of the Denisovan family treeCredit: © Isabella Apriyana The findings ...

Credit: The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences During the Great Depression, some unemployed Texans were put ...

Evolutionary biologists demonstrate that male fruit flies manipulate their female partnersCredit: Mareike Koppik The fundamental biological process of reproduction can ...

Credit: Lannon Harley, ANU An international team of researchers have uncovered the remains of a new species of human in ...

Credit: NIBB The male Japanese rhinoceros beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus, living on Japan's main island has big horns, which are used ...

The best place for a bird's voice box is low in the airway, researchers findCredit: Photo by Natasha Verzhbitskiy. All ...

UMD biologists found four bat lineages that live at least four times longer than similar-sized mammals and revealed new traits ...

Credit: John P. Clare The evolution of aquatic creatures to start living on land made them into more attentive parents, ...

Well-adorned or well-endowed - but not both. Evolutionary biologists at the University of Zurich have for the first time demonstrated ...

Credit: Elissa Martin/Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History New Haven, Conn. - Cthulhu is calling from the ancient depths -- ...

Taking a game theory approach to study cooperation, a University of Pennsylvania-led team found that empathy can help cooperative behavior ...

Credit: Simona Corneti Scientists from the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK Gatersleben) participated to perform ...

BIODIVERSITY Natural history museum paleontologists in Copenhagen and Helsinki have succeeded in mapping historical biodiversity in unprecedented detail. For the ...

Findings point to molecular resemblance in climate adaptation traits of the two species, Tel Aviv University researchers say A new ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute and the Santa Fe Institute have developed a new model to explain the evolutionary ...

With new genome analysis tools, scientists have made significant advances in our understanding of modern humans' origins and ancient migrations. ...

A gene regulatory multi-tool has yet another functionCredit: Reese Laboratory, Penn State A protein complex that is involved in nearly ...

Credit: Daniel Field. New research by a global team of scientists has resulted in significant strides in ornithological classification and ...

Weedy rice is neither wild rice nor crop rice, but rice gone rogue that has shed some traits important to ...

Male chimpanzees reduce aggression when social relationships in their group are unstableCredit: © Anna Preis A high social status has ...