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Evolution
Evolution: the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.Evolutionary processes give rise to biodiversity at every level of biological organisation, including the levels of species, individual organisms, and molecules. Repeated formation of new species, change within species, and loss of species throughout the evolutionary history of life on Earth are demonstrated by shared sets of morphological and biochemical traits, including shared DNA sequences. These shared traits are more similar among species that share a more recent common ancestor, and can be used to reconstruct a biological "tree of life" based on evolutionary relationships, using both existing species and fossils.
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JAN 18, 2023Genetics & Genomics
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JAN 18, 2023
Genetics & Genomics
Most animals are covered in hair, so why do some, like humans, have so much less than all the rest even though we still
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 17, 2023
Health & Medicine
A new study argues that the way the different parts of the brain in humans and Neandertals learn similarly.
Written By:
Brittany Kenyon-Flatt
JAN 15, 2023
Genetics & Genomics
As we age, the cells we carry in our bodies can pick up new mutations. Research has indicated that in many species, huma
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 13, 2023
Earth & The Environment
New research suggests a better time frame for when the Bering Land Bridge formed and flooded, and when humans migrated a
...
Written By:
Brittany Kenyon-Flatt
JAN 11, 2023
Genetics & Genomics
Smallpox is one of the worst diseases humanity has ever faced, and it has many distinctions. The first vaccine that was
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 11, 2023
Plants & Animals
Stone tools dated to 50,000 years ago were probably made by capuchin monkeys, not humans.
Written By:
Brittany Kenyon-Flatt
JAN 06, 2023
Technology
A new discovery from the Cooper's Ferry site suggests earlier origins for stone tools in the Americas.
Written By:
Brittany Kenyon-Flatt
JAN 04, 2023
Genetics & Genomics
2022 was a big year for human evolution research--read on for the top discoveries of the past year.
Written By:
Brittany Kenyon-Flatt
DEC 28, 2022
Health & Medicine
For millennia the arms race between bacteria and animals was fought through mutations and evolution. As modern bacteria
...
Written By:
Amielle Moreno
DEC 27, 2022
Plants & Animals
Octopuses are long known for being intelligent creatures. These flexible, eight-tentacled creatures, often demonstrate t
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
DEC 21, 2022
Plants & Animals
New research suggests humans may have become bipedal in the trees, not on the savanna.
Written By:
Brittany Kenyon-Flatt
DEC 19, 2022
Health & Medicine
A new study suggests that Denisovan DNA helps Papuans with immune response.
Written By:
Brittany Kenyon-Flatt
DEC 19, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
About 10,000 years ago in an area of the Middle East known as the Fertile Crescent, humans began to settle as farmers in
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 14, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
Wild plants are everywhere. So why do some become pests? New research has studied how agriculture created that problem f
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 14, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
Humans beings carry a lot of fluid in our bodies, and we need strong connections between structures and cells to hold ev
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 13, 2022
Plants & Animals
Scientists believe COVID-19 is still highly transmissible between species based on computer simulations of mammalian cro
...
Written By:
Kerry Charron
DEC 12, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
Humans have been breeding dogs for various purposes for thousands of years, and dogs have been selectively bred to perfo
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 12, 2022
Space & Astronomy
We all marvel at human beings being able to leave the confines of Earth, even if they leave only for a short time. But o
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 11, 2022
Earth & The Environment
In a recent study published in the Journal of Human Evolution, an international team of researchers led by Binghamton Un
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 09, 2022
Earth & The Environment
A hominin who lived around 200,000 years ago is now thought to have used fire.
Written By:
Brittany Kenyon-Flatt
DEC 08, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
For the first time, scientists have recovered sediment containing 2-million-year-old DNA, shattering the previous 'oldes
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 08, 2022
Microbiology
Mobility is an important ability for many organisms, who often have to swim, walk, or otherwise move around to look for
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 03, 2022
Space & Astronomy
In a recent study published in Geophysical Research Letters, a team of researchers led by the University of Iowa discuss
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 02, 2022
Space & Astronomy
Unprecedented discoveries regarding exoplanet atmospheres have just been detailed in a series of new papers (links provi
...
Written By:
Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.