Evolution

Nautilia Profundicola Gets Extreme Thanks To Genetic Adaptations

Want to learn how to survive in exteme environments?   A marine bacterium living 8,000 feet below the ocean's surface can show you the way.    The bacterium Nautilia profundicola, a microbe that survives near deep-sea hydrothermal vents, was found in ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 8 2009 - 1:29pm

Explosive Speciation

Show Me The Science Month Day 13 The grant writing has reached a fever pitch as the deadline closes in. Tomorrow 30 Days of Evolution Blogging will get back on track, but for today, a title and abstract will have to do. Today's paper is a DNA comparis ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Feb 9 2009 - 9:16am

Gibbon Chromosomes Shed Light on the History of Ours

Show Me The Science Month Day 14 Another abstract will have to do for today's extremely delayed installment; the grant proposal leaves my desk tomorrow, so I hope to be back in business as soon as my neck recovers from days of hunching over the laptop ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Feb 10 2009 - 11:59pm

RNA, HIV, and the Origins of Life

The central dogma of Molecular Genetics is that information flow is unidirectional:  DNA to RNA to PROTEIN.  That is, DNA holds the blueprints, RNA is the messenger, and Proteins are the constructed functional units of life. This dogma seems to hold for m ...

Blog Post - Nicholas Horton - Feb 11 2009 - 3:04pm

On The Origin Of (Sub) Species (In Yeast)

Scientists have sequenced over seventy strains of yeast, the greatest number of genomes for any species.  The basic machinery of yeast is surprisingly similar to that of humans, and the project is already helping experts to develop the tools necessary for ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 11 2009 - 7:40pm

Gene Duplication And Genetic Flexibility- Their Unknown Impact On Human Evolution

Roughly 10 million years ago, a major genetic change occurred in a common ancestor of gorillas, chimpanzees, and humans. Segments of DNA in its genome began to form duplicate copies at a greater rate than in the past, creating an instability that persists ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 11 2009 - 7:53pm

Darwin Browsing Over Late Afternoon Coffee

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Article - Michael White - Feb 12 2009 - 5:37pm

Evolution- DNA Return To the Universe

Today is Darwin Day. I didn't think I'd participate in this particular internet adventure. ...

Blog Post - Bente Lilja Bye - Mar 30 2009 - 12:13pm

Adaptation Trumps Fitness In Evolution Simulation, Says Study

Adaptation is one of the driving forces behind evolution, along with selection and the appearance of new species, say a group of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München researchers, but they say that the interpretation familiar since Darwin- these processes ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 13 2009 - 10:17am

The Persistent Divisiveness Of Darwin

Sunday Science Book Club, February 15 2009 Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America’s Soul by Edward Humes HarperCollins, 2007 It is rare for the world to see born on one day two towering individuals whose imprint on history ...

Article - Michael White - Jul 4 2009 - 12:29pm