Category Archives: Evolution

Lichen Can Survive in Space: New Light on Origin of Life

You can freeze it, thaw it, vacuum dry it and expose it to radiation, but still life survives. ESA’s research on the International Space Station is giving credibility to theories that life came from outer space — as well as … Continue reading

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Bacteria Use Sibling LikeTouch to Communicate:New Study

What if bacteria could talk to each other? What if they had a sense of touch? A new study by researchers at UC Santa Barbara suggests both, and theorizes that such cells may, in fact, need to communicate in order to … Continue reading

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Chinese Fossils Shed Light On Evolutionary Origin of Animals

Evidence of the single-celled ancestors of animals, dating from the interval in Earth’s history just before multicellular animals appeared, has been discovered in 570 million-year-old rocks from South China by researchers from the University of Bristol, the Swedish Museum of … Continue reading

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Nature Uses Screws and Nuts

 A musculoskeletal system so far unknown in the animal world was recently discovered in weevils. The hip ofTrigonopterus oblongus does not consist of the usual hinges, but of joints based on a screw-and-nut system. This first biological screw thread is about … Continue reading

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Heiderberg Man Was Last Common Ancestor of Humans and Neanderthals

A Consensus is building that Homo heidelbergensis, “Heidelberg Man,” was the last common ancestor of Neanderthals and our species.Anthropologists believe Heidelberg Man was tall and had a strong jaw holding small teeth.The evolutionary split between Neanderthals and modern humans may have … Continue reading

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Horse Fossils say ‘You Are What You Eat’

Fossil records verify a long-standing theory that horses evolved through natural selection, according to groundbreaking research by two anatomy professors at New York College of Osteopathic Medicine (NYCOM) of New York Institute of Technology.Working with colleagues from Massachusetts and Spain, … Continue reading

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