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The Lizard's Tale 105: Island Test Tubes, Part 1
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Female Cockroaches Hate Romance (And It’s Our Fault)
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Missing 'Law of Nature' Found That Describes The Way All Things Evolve
Complex, evolving systems abound in our Universe, even beyond the realms of biology.
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Why greed may offer an evolutionary advantage
Religion and science have long had disagreements — from Galileo, who was tried for teaching that the Earth was not the center of the universe, to battles over teaching evolution in public schools. But when it comes to greed, religion and science share this view: It is not good for you.
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'Evolution will punish you if you're selfish and mean'
Two Michigan State University evolutionary biologists offer new evidence that evolution doesn’t favor the selfish, disproving a theory popularized in 2012. “We found evolution will punish you if you’re selfish and mean,” said lead author Christoph Adami, MSU professor of microbiology and molecular genetics. “For a short time and against a specific set of opponents, some selfish organisms may come out ahead. But selfishness isn’t evolutionarily sustainable.”
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This amazing fruit fly evolved to have pictures of ants on its wings
This is unbelievable, but the fruit fly G tridens has somehow evolved to have what looks like pictures of ants on its wings. Seriously, its transparent wings have an ant design on them complete with "six legs, two antennae, a head, thorax and tapered abdomen." It's nature's evolutionary art painted on a fly's wings.
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Did Iconic Archaeopteryx Lose Its Ability to Fly?
Although it has long been debated whether the proto-bird Archaeopteryx was able to actually fly or merely evolving toward that ability, to date nobody had yet seriously suggested that it could have been instead in the midst of losing its ability to fly. But that is precisely what Michael Habib, a biologist at the University of Southern California proposed last week to a packed hall at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in Los Angeles.
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8 Incredible Facts You May Not Know About Human Evolution
Homo sapiens evolved about 200-150,000 years ago in Africa, but our story as a species stretches back much further than that with early human ancestors. And the evolution of Homo sapiens is itself a tangled tale, full of unanswered questions and gothic family melodrama. Here are a few facts you may not know about the human evolutionary story.
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The evolution of beauty - Face the facts
What makes for a beautiful visage, and why, may have been discovered accidentally on a Russian fur farm
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Rare skull sparks human evolution controversy
Fragments of humans' ancient relatives are scattered across the globe. Sometimes a tooth or a few bones are all we have to tell us about an entire species closely related to humans that lived thousands or millions of years ago.
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24,000-Year-Old Body Shows Kinship to Europeans and American Indians
The genome of a young boy buried at Mal’ta near Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia some 24,000 years ago has turned out to hold two surprises for anthropologists
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'Humans evolved after a female chimpanzee mated with a pig'
The human species began as the hybrid offspring of a male pig and a female chimpanzee, a leading geneticist has suggested. The startling claim has been made by Eugene McCarthy, of the University of Georgia, who is also one of the worlds leading authorities on hybridisation in animals.
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Synthetic primordial cell copies RNA for the first time
We are a step closer to understanding how life began, and we can thank the humble lemon.
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Aquatic comb jelly floats into new evolutionary position
In a study that compares the genomes of aquatic life forms, researchers have found evidence to shuffle the branches of the tree of life. For more than a century, scientists thought that complex cell types, like neurons and muscles, evolved only once, after simple animals that lack these cell types branched from the rest of animals on the evolutionary tree.
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The evolution of morality
Our morality may be a product of natural selection, but that doesn’t mean it's set in stone
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1.34-Million-Year-Old Hominin Found in Tanzania
A partial skeleton of Paranthropus boisei represents one of the most recent occurrences of the hominin before its extinction in East Africa.
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One-third of Americans reject human evolution
While nearly two-thirds of Americans say humans have evolved over time, a third of U.S. adults disagree, according to new survey results from the Pew Research Center. The Pew Research Religion & Public Life Project report released Monday found that 33% think "humans and other living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time." Sixty percent agreed with evolution.
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Islands make animals tamer
Lizard study supports Darwin's hunch that lack of predators leads to unwatchful behaviour.
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What the Man With No Ass Crack Can Teach Darwinists and Creationists
The curious case of the now virally famous man with no ass crack suggests that the battle between Darwinists and Creationists may come down to … the cloaca.
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Caught in the act: microbes do have sex
There is no denying that humans think sex is important, but it also matters for microbes. Sex allows genes from two parents to be mixed, leading to new combinations of genes in the offspring. In the past…
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