Evolution

Following on just 6 months after the last 'new hominid' ...... http://www.science20.com/chatter_box/blog/new_hominid_discovered_anoiapi... 1 ....another discovery, this time in Siberia, of a…

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…

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…

Hi, my name is Tree (strange name but it grows on yah, please don't cut me down.)This is my blog on scientificblogging.com where the title for the index page is: Scientific Blogging | The world's…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Promiscuous females may be the key to a species' survival, according to new research published today in Current Biology. The study may explain why females of most species have multiple mates, despite…