Evolution
Research has confirmed how early land vertebrates, which evolved from fish, developed weight-bearing limbs and other adaptations long before their...
Evolution by natural selection says that those characteristics that enable organisms to survive and reproduce more than others will tend to end up...
Scientists have long observed that species seem to have become increasingly capable of evolving in response to changes in the environment. But...
Anyone who has spent time in the tropics knows that the diversity of species found there is astounding and the abundance and diversity of ants, in...
Fishes account for over half of vertebrate species, but while groups such as mammals, birds and reptiles have been fairly well understood by...
An historic fish, with an intriguing past, now has had its genome sequenced, providing a wealth of information on the genetic changes that...
Thomas Nagel is one of the panjandrums of consciousness, author of the classic paper ‘What Is It Like To Be A Bat’ and so a champion of qualia; but...
In new research published in the April 4, 2013 issue of The American Journal of Human Genetics, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH)...
System-wide networks of proteins are indispensable for organisms. Function and evolution of these networks are among the most fascinating research...
A research team led by biogeochemists at the University of California, Riverside has filled in a billion-year gap in our understanding of conditions...
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