News articles tagged with 'ancestor'
Study analyses role of PARP enzyme in eukaryotes
— 9 Mar 2011 18:59 | HealthAn Ohio State University molecular biologist leveraged a supercomputer to help better define the family tree of a group of enzymes that have been implicated in a wide range of human…
Our ancestors lived on shaky ground
— 4 Mar 2011 14:11 | Geology and palaeontologyOur earliest ancestors preferred to settle in locations that have something in common with cities such as San Francisco, Naples and Istanbul - they are often on active tectonic faults…
Skin colour: Handy tool for teaching evolution
— 20 Feb 2011 16:15 | BiologyVariations in skin colour provide one of the best examples of evolution by natural selection acting on the human body and should be used to teach evolution in schools, according to…
Biological anthropologists question claims for human ancestry
— 17 Feb 2011 18:57 | Biology'Too simple' and 'not so fast' suggest biological anthropologists from the George Washington University and New York University about the origins of human ancestry. In the upcoming…
New evolutionary research disproves living missing link theories
— 10 Feb 2011 18:52 | BiologyEvolution is not a steady march towards ever more sophisticated beings and therefore the search for the living 'missing links' is pointless, according to findings published by a team…
Revisited human-worm relationships shed light on brain evolution
— 10 Feb 2011 18:43 | Biology'Man is but a worm' was the title of a famous caricature of Darwin's ideas in Victorian England. Now, 120 years later, a molecular analysis of mysterious marine creatures unexpectedly…
Genetic archaeology finds parts of our genome more closely related to orangutans than chimps
— 27 Jan 2011 17:44 | BiologyIn a study published online today in Genome Research (www.genome.org), in coordination with the publication of the orangutan genome sequence, scientists have presented the surprising…
Genome of extinct Siberian cave-dweller linked to modern-day humans
— 4 Jan 2011 21:17 | Geology and palaeontologyResearchers have discovered evidence of a distinct group of 'archaic' humans existing outside of Africa more than 30,000 years ago at a time when Neanderthals are thought to have dominated…
Fossil finger bone yields genome of a previously unknown human relative
— 4 Jan 2011 20:35 | Geology and palaeontologyA 30,000-year-old finger bone found in a cave in southern Siberia came from a young girl who was neither an early modern human nor a Neanderthal, but belonged to a previously unknown…
Meat-eating dinosaurs not so carnivorous after all
— 3 Jan 2011 17:05 | Geology and palaeontologyTyrannosaurus rex may have been a flesh-eating terror but many of his closest relatives were more content with vegetarian fare, a new analysis by Field Museum scientists has found.…