Future directions for understanding the coevolution of life and oxygen
Defining an oxygenated world In order to constrain Earth System changes associated with environmental oxygen availability, a variety…
Genetics Reveal How Human Contact Shapes Language Evolution
Summary: A new study shows that genetic evidence of historical contact between populations reveals consistent patterns of language…
Paleontologist Discovers First Known Silurian Horseshoe Crab
Horseshoe crabs are an ancient lineage with an evolutionary history stretching back 450 million years (Ordovician period) and…
DNA From a Mysterious Extinct Hominin May Have Helped Ancient Americans Survive
New research suggests that as ancient humans migrated into the Americas, they carried a surprising evolutionary advantage hidden…
Team figures out how cavefish lost their eyes
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Why Salmonella Dublin poses a food safety threat in beef and dairy
A nationwide genomic study shows that while Salmonella Dublin looks genetically uniform, it hides powerful resistance traits that…
Insect applications to open wounds by chimpanzees in the wild: first insights from East African chimpanzees
Kirmayer, L. J. The cultural diversity of healing: meaning, metaphor and mechanism. Br. Med. Bull. 69, 33–48 (2004).…
Why Great White Sharks’ DNA Doesn’t Add Up
Once survivors of the ice age, great white sharks carry a strange DNA riddle. Nuclear and mitochondrial results…
Early puberty and early childbirth linked to faster aging
Buck Institute study finds genetic trade-offs that favor early reproduction can come at a cost later in life.…
Genetic mutation in key enzyme may explain why humans survived while Neanderthals went extinct
A minor genetic difference in one of the enzymes may have helped separate modern humans from Neanderthals and…
75-Million-Year-Old Dragonfly Species Found | Sci.News
Named Cordualadensa acorni, the new dragonfly species from Alberta’s Dinosaur Provincial Park represents the only Mesozoic dragonfly for…