Category Archives: Evolution

Bacteria Use Sibling LikeTouch to Communicate:New Study

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Rashid Faridi

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

Posted on December 26, 2011 by Rashid Faridi

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

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Rashid Faridi

 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

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Rashid Faridi

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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