Ankle Bone Fossil of Earliest Primate Implies That It Was Arboreal
It’s always been contentious when primates started climbing trees. The discovery of some new ankle bones is now making it look like primates have always…
Evolutionary News
Understanding the Evolution of Organic Molecules in Our Solar System
A newly published study from scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory provides the first direct look at the organic chemistry that takes place on icy…
Biodiversity on Earth Increases With Global Warming
It would seem logical that periods of global warming in Earth’s history started the extinction pulses that defined the geological record. However, that’s not the…
Prehistoric Human Social Networks Resemble Modern Ones
If prehistoric hunters and gatherers had access to social networking sites, they would probably end up with networks that looked identical to modern ones, according…
Evolutionary Biologists Make Multicellular Life Evolve in the Lab
The evolutionary transition between single-celled organisms and multicellular life as we know it took several billion years to occur in nature, but under artificial pressure,…