evolution
Our eye sockets give us a wider field of view than other apes
Posted in Featured, Science on 26th Jun, 2015
by Alex Muller
This may have given our ancestors an edge when they descended from the forests into savannas.
Fossils explain how life coped during snowball Earth
Posted in Featured, Science on 16th Jun, 2015
by Alex Muller
The fossils could speak to how life coped in the Cryogenian period, when glaciers held most of Earth in a frozen grip.
Evolution is unpredictable and irreversible, biologists show
Posted in Science on 10th Jun, 2015
by Alex Muller
The study focuses exclusively on the type of evolution known as purifying selection, which favors mutations that have no or only a small effect in a fixed environment.
Missing link fossil shows sharks are far more evolved than previously thought
Posted in Science on 31st May, 2015
by Alex Muller
Sharks have cartilaginous skeletons, causing earlier experts to assume they are part of a primitive evolutionary pathway.
World's Oldest Broken Bone Pushes Back Our Transition to Land by Two Million Years
Posted in Science on 27th May, 2015
by Alex Muller
Researchers analyzing the worlds oldest broken bone have discovered that a 333M year old critter spent most of its life on land.