Evolution

Evolutionary Imbalance: Darwin Was Right About Invasive Species

worried, but this would suggest they should be more worried about imports from some parts of the world than ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 2 2014 - 10:01am

What Grapevine Transposons Can Teach Us About Genome Evolution

The grapevine (Vitis vinifera) is a widely cultivated crop that has been subjected to intensive breeding since the Neolithic period (from ~10,500 to ~6,000 years ago). The domestication of grapevine has undergone a selection for traits important for its cu ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 2 2008 - 9:52pm

There's Never Been A Better Year to Learn About Evolution

That's because there is going to be so much great, non-technical writing in honor of Darwin's 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On The Origin of Species. We're going to have some great Darwin Day writing here at ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Jan 8 2009 - 11:50pm

Edentulism: Tooth Loss In Birds Occurred About 116 Million Years Ago

 Edentulism, the absence of teeth, has evolved on multiple occasions within vertebrates including birds, turtles, and a few groups of mammals such as anteaters, baleen whales and pangolins, but where early birds are concerned, the fossil record is fragment ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 26 2014 - 9:00am

Does Truth Matter?

'sociobiology', a science of which she aspires to be a serious scholar. When biologists talk about ...

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

Blooming Botany (1B)

programme suggests that this is in fear of what the clergy might say about him tampering with God’s ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Jul 5 2011 - 6:14pm

The First Known Deuterostome?

Saccorhytus was about a millimetre in size, and probably lived between grains of sand on the seabed. Its ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Feb 14 2017 - 4:41pm

Why Don't We Have Giant Insects Today?

Fossilized insect wing of Stephanotypus schneideri from about 300 million years ago, when insects reached ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 4 2012 - 4:13pm

Darwin And The Origin Of Life

Información y Noticias Científicas (SINC). Darwin had advanced ideas about the origin of life, says a new ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 27 2009 - 11:57am

Utricularia Gibba: Carnivorous Plant Deletes Its Own Noncoding "Junk" DNA

and trap unsuspecting critters. The U. gibba genome has about 80 million DNA base pairs — a miniscule ...

Article - News Staff - May 13 2013 - 10:21am