Evolution

DNA Evidence Indicates Polar Bears Are Evolutionarily Young

Researchers analyzing mitochondrial DNA extracted from a polar bear fossil discovered in Norway in 2004 say the species is relatively young, splitting off from brown bears approximately 150,000 years ago and rapidly evolving during the late Pleistocene. Th ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 1 2010 - 2:58pm

Anthropologists Challenge Darwinius Masillae's Missing Link Status

the 47-million-year-old Darwinius masillae fossil that was celebrated last year as a so-called 'missing link' between humans and early primates is actually a forebearer of modern-day lemurs and lorises, according to two papers in the Journal of H ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 2 2010 - 1:32pm

Carnival of Evolution is Up

Check out the Super Star Edition at Mauka to Makai, which, this month, is almost as exciting as watching Shaun White and Apolo Ohno. There are a bunch of posts commemorating Darwin's birthday, which note his obsession with Barnacles, his efforts to de ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Mar 3 2010 - 11:24am

Using Slime Mold To Build Rail Networks

I seem to have developed a reputation for hating networks, but really, it's just tough love. Complex, adaptive, self-organizing networks are fascinating (and inspired the title of this blog), and they deserve a rigorous scientific treatment. Decentral ...

Article - Michael White - Mar 3 2010 - 6:30pm

Specialized Adaptations Aren't Evolutionary Dead-Ends, Study Claims

A study of blind scorpions published in Cladistics is challenging the long-held assumption that specialized adaptations are irreversible, evolutionary dead-ends. According to the new phylogenetic analysis of the family Typhlochactidae, scorpions currently ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:04pm

Dogs Came From The Middle East, Biologists Say

Dogs likely originated in the Middle East, according to a new genetic analysis published this week in Nature. The study reports genetic data from more than 900 dogs from 85 breeds and more than 200 wild gray wolves (the ancestor of domestic dogs) worldwide ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:05pm

National Academy does not shy from controversy: Human Evolution and Climate in one report!

This should be a good read: Understanding Climate's Influence on Human Evolution The hominin fossil record documents a history of critical evolutionary events that have ultimately shaped and defined what it means to be human, including the origins of ...

Blog Post - Adam Retchless - Mar 19 2010 - 1:38pm

New Hominid discovered in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia

Following on just 6 months after the last 'new hominid'...... http://www.scientificblogging.com/chatter_box/blog/new_hominid_discovered_anoiapithecus_brevirostris 1....another discovery, this time in Siberia, of a previously unknown relative.  DN ...

Blog Post - Henry Cox - Mar 24 2010 - 11:38pm

The Hall Of Human Origins

What does it mean to be human? In the six million years or so since our ancestors first stood upright, we still don't have the perfect answer. In an effort to help the public appreciate our own unique development as human beings and explore the questi ...

Article - Becky Jungbauer - Mar 30 2010 - 9:21pm

Man created the God or God created the man or man evolved from natural selection?

Earth is  hundreds of billions of year old and a set of plants and animals are found in different periods. Man is the latest creation of nature or God or some supernatural or natural power which remians to be defined. In every continent where ever man aros ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 31 2010 - 9:30am