News articles tagged with 'evolution' (Page 2)
Homoplasy: A good thread to pull to understand the evolutionary ball of yarn
— 26 Feb 2011 17:51 | BiologyWith the genetics of so many organisms that have different traits yet to study, and with the techniques for gathering full sets of genetic information from organisms rapidly evolving,…
New research suggests that obesity and diabetes are a downside of human evolution
— 26 Feb 2011 17:18 | HealthAs if the recent prediction that half of all Americans will have diabetes or pre-diabetes by the year 2020 isn't alarming enough, a new genetic discovery published online in the FASEB…
Missing sugar molecule raises diabetes risk in humans
— 26 Feb 2011 16:39 | HealthResearchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego say an evolutionary gene mutation that occurred in humans millions of…
Earth's core rotating faster than rest of the planet but slower than previously believed
— 21 Feb 2011 17:57 | Geology and palaeontologyNew research gives the first accurate estimate of how much faster the Earth's core is rotating compared to the rest of the planet…
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…
Subtle shifts, not major sweeps, drove human evolution
— 18 Feb 2011 17:23 | BiologyThe most popular model used by geneticists for the last 35 years to detect the footprints of human evolution may overlook more common subtle changes, a new international study finds…
Xenacoelomorpha - a new phylum in the animal kingdom
— 17 Feb 2011 17:51 | BiologyAn international team of scientists including Albert Poustka from the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin has discovered that Xenoturbellida and the acoelomorph worms,…
Simple marine worms distantly related to humans
— 10 Feb 2011 19:49 | BiologyTwo groups of lowly marine worms are related to complex species including vertebrates (such as humans) and starfish, according to new research. Previously thought to be an evolutionary…
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…