Plant study hints evolution may be predictable
Evolution has long been viewed as a rather random process, with the traits of species shaped by chance mutations and environmental events --...
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The greening ashore
It took several hundred million years after the formation of Earth some 4½ billion years ago for the initially fiery globe to cool down, all...
Study sheds light on penguin evolution
An international team of 40 researchers analyzed the genomes—the complete set of DNA—of all living and recently extinct penguin species and ...
The hippo and the hydra
A new study describes the formation of the body axis in the immortal freshwater polyp Hydra. It is controlled by the so-called hippo signall...
Evolving to outpace climate change, tiny marine animal provides new evidence of long-theorized genetic mechanism
Some copepods, diminutive crustaceans with an outsized place in the aquatic food web, can evolve fast enough to survive in the face of rapid...
Paleobiology: Complex family relationships
An international team of researchers led by LMU paleontologist Bettina Reichenbacher has managed to classify fossils of one of the most spec...
Study explores coevolution of mammals and their lice
According to a new study, the first louse to take up residence on a mammalian host likely started out as a parasite of birds. That host-jump...
How did vertebrates first evolve jaws?
Five-hundred million years ago, it was relatively safe to go back in the water. That's because creatures of the deep had not yet evolved...
Virus discovery offers clues about origins of complex life
The first discovery of viruses infecting a group of microbes that may include the ancestors of all complex life has been found, researchers ...
Parasitic worms reveal new insights into the evolution of sex and sex chromosomes
Studying two highly divergent phyla of worms that contain numerous parasites that cause human and livestock diseases, the research group of ...
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