Evolution

Flow Machine: Hacking The Human Brain For Healing And Wellbeing

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Article - Michael W. Taft - Oct 3 2014 - 10:56am

Brain and Cerebellum

I have just downloaded a paper featuring some research from the University of Durham and our own School of Biological Sciences here at Reading: ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Oct 8 2014 - 9:54am

In Distantly Related Species, Bigger Isn’t Better

Sparkling Violetear. Image courtesy of Paul Martin By Katharine Gammon, Inside Science (Inside Science) – Most of the time, for an individual animal, the bigger you are, the more likely you are to succeed. But sometimes, the little guy prevails – and scie ...

Article - Katharine Gammon - Jun 20 2015 - 3:21pm

Around The World In 400,000 Years: The Genome Of The World's Most Widely Distributed Land Carnivore

In the past, researchers have primarily used the genetic history of mothers to understand evolution in animals, but a new study has investigated ancestry across the red fox genome, including the Y chromosome (paternal line) and  found some surprises about ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 7 2014 - 1:30pm

How Evolution Creates New Characteristics

The evolution of new traits with novel functions has long been studied by evolutionary biology and a new study of the color markings of cichlid fish has shed some new light on it. Swiss scientists writing in Nature Communications show what triggered these ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 9 2014 - 10:30am

Flies Give Another Twist In The Evolving Story Of Heredity

A female neriid fly (right) laying eggs, while her mate fights off a rival male. Angela Crean and Russell Bonduriansky. Credit: Author provided By Angela Crean and Russell Bonduriansky ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 9 2014 - 4:01pm

Why Do Random Walks In Evolution Lead To The Same Place?

An interesting experiment published in Science placed baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) in separate identical bioworlds. Then, at the same time, historical contingency events would happen, just like they have on earth- and only the fittest surv ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 17 2014 - 3:08pm

The History Of Genetically Modified Tomatoes

What's not red and about the size of your thumb? Tomatoes, before ancient scientists set out to make them patabale.  This genomic history of tomato breeding, based on sequencing of 360 varieties of the tomato plant, has vaulted beyond the first tomat ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 14 2014 - 6:30pm

Apoptosis Evolution: Cellular Self-destruction Has Been Around Almost As Long As Cells Have

It seems counter-intuitive that in order to survive best as a species, not everything can live forever, but some cells in our bodies are fated to die, and a Mission Impossible-style auto-destruct program insures they do. This elaborate cell death program, ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 19 2014 - 9:30am

How Mitochondria Began- Parasitic Coevolution Gets A New Wrinkle

Parasitic bacteria were the first cousins of mitochondria, the energy factories in our cells – and first acted as energy parasites in those cells before becoming beneficial, according to a University of Virginia study that used next-generation DNA sequenc ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 17 2014 - 7:30am