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American Chemical Society supports teaching evolution in K-12
The American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, is reiterating its call for evolution to be included in the K-12 science curricula at an "age-appropriate level," because it is "central to our modern understanding of science."   view more (2005-08-16)

Industry Evolution And Shakeout Mechanisms In The Internet Service Provider Industry
The dissertation of Susanne Suhonen (Mc.S in Econ) will be publicly examined at the Helsinki School of Economics on Friday, May 24, 2002. The opponent is Professor Thomas Keil from the Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada. The instructor is Professor Arto Lahti, from the Helsinki School of Economics. The dissertation "Industry... view more... (2002-05-24)

Evolution study tightens human-chimp connection
Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found genetic evidence that seems to support a controversial hypothesis that humans and chimpanzees may be more closely related to each other than chimps are to the other two species of great apes - gorillas and orangutans.   view more (2006-01-24)

Darwin's greatest challenge tackled: the mystery of eye evolution
When Darwin's skeptics attack his theory of evolution, they often focus on the eye. Darwin himself confessed that it was "absurd" to propose that the human eye evolved through spontaneous mutation and natural selection. Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) have now tackled Darwin's major challenge in an... view more... (2004-10-26)

Man's best friend lends insight into human evolution
Flexibly drawing inferences about the intentions of other individuals in order to cooperate in complex tasks is a basic part of everyday life that we humans take for granted.   view more (2007-03-02)

Complexity constrains evolution of human brain genes
Despite the explosive growth in size and complexity of the human brain, the pace of evolutionary change among the thousands of genes expressed in brain tissue has actually slowed since the split, millions of years ago, between human and chimpanzee.   view more (2006-12-26)

Study finds human population expanded during late Stone Age
Genetic evidence is revealing that human populations began to expand in size in Africa during the Late Stone Age approximately 40,000 years ago.   view more (2009-07-29)

Evolution education is a 'must' says coalition of scientific and teaching organizations
A coalition of 17 organizations, including the National Academy of Sciences, the American Institute of Physics, and the National Science Teachers Association, is calling on the scientific community to become more involved in the promotion of science education, including evolution.   view more (2008-01-02)

Chimpanzee study reveals genome variation hotspots
Researchers believe that dynamic regions of the human genome - "hotspots" in terms of duplications and deletions - are potentially involved in the rapid evolution of morphological and behavioral characteristics that are genetically determined.   view more (2006-05-16)

Columbine flowers develop long nectar spurs in response to pollinators
In flowers called columbines, evolution of the length of nectar spurs--the long tubes leading to plants' nectar--happens in a way that allows flowers to match the tongue lengths of the pollinators that drink their nectar, biologists have found.   view more (2007-06-08)

Third primate genome, the rhesus macaque, helps illuminate what makes us human
Researchers have sequenced the genome of the relatively ancient rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta), providing perspective into how humans are genetically different from our primate relatives.   view more (2007-04-13)

Kent State University Professor C. Owen Lovejoy helps unveil oldest hominid skeleton
Throw out all those posters and books that depict an ape evolving into a human being, says Kent State University Professor of Anthropology Dr. C. Owen Lovejoy.   view more (2009-10-02)

Conflict over rearing young shapes breeding systems
An article in the October 2006 issue of BioScience, the monthly journal of the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), describes evidence that conflict between male and female shorebirds over which member of a breeding pair will raise their young has had a profound influence on the evolution of breeding systems in these birds.   view more (2006-10-03)

Dairy Farming, Cattle Milk Genes And Gene-Culture Co-Evolution
Cattle milk genes, the genetic capacity of humans to digest milk and the habit of using dairy products have evolved together in a unique process called gene-culture co-evolution says a team of researchers in the last issue of the journal Nature Genetics. Genes are for most species the only way to transfer information across generations but in some... view more... (2003-12-18)

Biodiversity promotes evolutionary change
Evolutionary biologists at the University of East Anglia have discovered a new link between biodiversity and the evolution of new species.   view more (2005-04-18)

Yerkes researchers identify language feature unique to human brain
Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have identified a language feature unique to the human brain that is shedding light on how human language evolved. The study marks the first use of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), a non-invasive imaging technique, to compare human brain structures to those of... view more... (2008-03-24)

A new tribe at the BA festival
A new tribe is emerging from Mexico's scorched earth. A team of geoarchaeologists working on a programme investigating human evolution have found skeletal remains in the desert of the Baja California Peninsula that give rise to new theories on the colonisation of the Americas.   view more (2004-09-03)

Human culture subject to natural selection, Stanford study shows
The process of natural selection can act on human culture as well as on genes, a new study finds.   view more (2008-02-19)

A new link between nickel, methane gas and the evolution of complex life forms on Earth
A University of Alberta researcher is lead author on a paper that reaches back billions of years to establish a new link between nickel, methane gas and the evolution of complex life forms on Earth.   view more (2009-04-09)

Switching goals
Is heading straight for a goal the quickest way there" If the name of the game is evolution, suggests new research at the Weizmann Institute of Science, the pace might speed up if the goals themselves change continuously.   view more (2007-08-29)
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