Evolution

PIWI Pathway Isn't Perfect But It's What Keeps Transposons From Destroying Your Genes

provide vital information about the outlaw DNA. But the piRNAs don't offer a complete picture. ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 18 2014 - 9:00am

Evolution Is Furthering Mutations That Are Making Us Whiter

humans left Africa (about 100,000 years ago) and headed for Asia or Europe, where UV intensity was lower, ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 6 2014 - 11:44am

Menopause Is One Of Nature's Greatest Mysteries

Research One idea is that wisdom accumulates with age and that old females store vital information about ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 5 2015 - 12:54pm

The Mystery Of 'Foreign' Genes Not From Our Ancestors

re-evaluate how we think about evolution." Some genes were identified as having originated from fungi. ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 12 2015 - 11:41am

Patrick Matthew, The Overlooked Third Man Of Natural Selection

Russel Wallace to the Linnean Society secured their place in history books about natural selection but 27 ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 20 2015 - 10:50am

Our Human Ancestors Had Tentacles

brachiopods having survived survived to the present day. It is known from the Early Ordovician, about 500 ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 24 2015 - 10:55am

Ancient Genome Of Iberian Farmer Sequenced

the Molecular Biology and Evolution journal. The first farmers entering Europe about 8,000 years ago ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 9 2015 - 11:47am

Parasite Genome Reveals It's Actually A 'Micro Jellyfish'

animal genomes ever reported. It only has about 20 million base pairs, whereas the average Cnidarian has ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 17 2015 - 11:00am

Using Artificial Intelligence On The Genome Uncovers New Missing Link In Evolution

thousands of years ago. Credit: Nature Communications "About 80,000 years ago, the so-called Out of ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 16 2019 - 2:23pm

How Are Cancer Cells Like HeLA Able To Survive Evolution?

they picked about 20 cells from each of the single cell originated clones from B8 and counted their ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 3 2019 - 9:50am