Tag: evolution

Gigantic Mammal ‘Cousin’ Discovered

23/11/2018

The discovery of Lisowicia changes our ideas about the latest history of dicynodonts, and also raises more questions about what made them and dinosaurs so large....

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Humans Cause of Sixth Mass Extinction

16/10/2018

If current conservation efforts are not improved, so many mammal species will become extinct during the next five decades that nature will need 3–5 million years to recover....

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Snuggle or Die: Sociable Monkeys More Likely to Survive Winter

30/05/2018

A new study is the first to show that social huddling may be a mechanism that connects social bonding to higher fitness....

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Why Do We Have Eyebrows? Finally We Have an Evolutionary Explanation

11/04/2018

Why expressive brows might have mattered in human evolution...

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Neanderthal speartip

Oi, Hairy! New Findings on the Neanderthal-Homo Sapiens Transition

15/06/2017

Study sheds light on Neanderthal-Homo sapiens transition ...

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flint, stone age

Guess Which Parts of the Brain Were Used for Stone Age Tech

11/05/2017

Changes in Early Stone Age tool production have 'musical' ties ...

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star nosed mole

Know Your Moles: The Star-Nosed Mole

24/04/2017

Strange-looking creature yields surprising insights about nerves, brains and extreme adaptation...

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wall

No Walls in Nature: Range Expansion in the Animal World

01/02/2017

Challenging traditional theories on organisms' 'range expansion'...

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Life: Crawling Along for 3.2 Billion Years.

09/11/2016

Life took hold on land 300 million years earlier than thought ...

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Black pigs

Black is the New Pink. Black Pigs, Better Bacon

25/09/2016

New mutation found that suggests humans across the world have selected and bred black pigs...

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Gecko and An

Why Spiderman Can’t Climb Walls

20/01/2016

There is a size limit to sticky footpads as an evolutionary solution to climbing...

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All about that Vertebral Wedging

21/03/2015

Men prefer women who exhibit specific angles of spinal curvature over buttock mass...

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Human language evolved from Birds

17/03/2013

How human language could have evolved from birdsong...

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A picture by Dan Booth

Has evolution given humans unique brain structures?

04/03/2013

By combining different research methods, we now have a first piece of evidence that could prove that humans have unique cortical brain networks....

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Our Ancestors: Social Climbers or downright loafers?

07/01/2013

Did humans really come down from the trees or did we have to come down from the trees to become human? ...

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