Evolution

Sweet Evolution: The Sugar Difference In Human Development

A particular kind of sugar molecule had a big impact on human evolution and may have directed the evolutionary emergence of our ancestors, according to a new study in   Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the first evidence of a link between ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 10 2011 - 5:29pm

How Life May Have Survived 'Snowball Earth'

Global warming is bad but at least we have a chance to control it.  Simple life hundreds of millions of years ago had to just go with the flow so when global glaciation put a chill on things back then, the only way even simple life in the form of photosynt ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 11 2011 - 12:30pm

Genes And Human Brain Evolution

The evolution of the human brain is the topic of a lot of research. This shouldn’t be surprising since it is so well-developed in human beings, and, as many believe, it is one of the main traits that sets us apart from our close evolutionary relatives. Th ...

Article - Gunnar De Winter - Oct 24 2011 - 1:55am

Biology: Where The Red Queen Rules

  “It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.”  The Red Queen, Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll. ...

Article - Bharat Srinivasa - Oct 26 2011 - 10:10am

Questions About Speciation

How do new species arise? This question is still being vigorously researched in evolutionary biology. New technologies, such as genomics, provide intriguing new opportunities to investigate the matter, but they also show that some of the previous ideas we ...

Article - Gunnar De Winter - Nov 8 2011 - 8:29pm

Does Truth Matter?

Jerry Coyne is a goose. There, I've said it. I mean it in the nicest possible way of course, but it had to be said. And the reason for this unseemly outburst? Well, if you want to see something really unseemly, check out Jerry's column of 8th Fe ...

Article - Steve Davis - Nov 26 2011 - 8:42pm

Indications of the Big “S” Curve of Extended Evolution?

The path leading to today's technological society has gone through several phases of evolution. Carl Sagan distinguished three main phases of evolution: biological evolution, development of the human mind, and human civilization. In each phase, the me ...

Blog Post - David LePoire - Jan 13 2012 - 2:24pm

The Genome Question- What Do We Have In Common With A Gorilla?

Researchers have completed the genome sequence for the gorilla, the last genus of the living great apes to have its genome decoded. The results confirm that our closest relative is the chimpanzee but much of the human genome more closely resembles the gor ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 4 2012 - 2:56pm

Requiem for Humanity — Anarchy and Evolution

ANARCHY AND EVOLUTION Competition of life forms (bio-human, android, nanobots, robot) is critical for them to evolve into robust species capable of dealing with all the diversity in the universe. Early earth life had millions of years for this competition ...

Blog Post - Alan Hoshor - Mar 9 2012 - 1:44pm

Ugly? Blame Evolution- And Females

Are you ugly?  Maybe that's something else to blame your mother about. Female cognitive ability can impact how handsome males become over evolutionary time, say biologists from The University of Texas at Austin, Louisiana State University Health Scien ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 29 2012 - 2:30am