Biologists use commonly-found insects that engage in cannibalism to prove a key evolutionary concept.
Source: Pantry moths who eat each other prove a key principle of evolution – Big Think
Biologists use commonly-found insects that engage in cannibalism to prove a key evolutionary concept.
Source: Pantry moths who eat each other prove a key principle of evolution – Big Think
A new study is the first to identify how human brains grow much larger, with three times as many neurons, compared with chimpanzee and gorilla brains. The study identified a key molecular switch that can make ape brain organoids grow more like human organoids, and vice versa.
Source: How humans develop larger brains than other apes — ScienceDaily
The ancestors of modern-day people living on Southeast Asian islands likely interbred with a prehistoric species called Denisovans – raising the possibility of fresh and intriguing fossil discoveries.
Source: Evolutionary study suggests prehistoric human fossils ‘hiding in plain sight’ in Southeast Asia
Researchers find that the earliest bacteria had the tools to perform a crucial step in photosynthesis, changing how we think life evolved on Earth.
Source: Photosynthesis could be as old as life itself — ScienceDaily
Using molecular dating tools and epidemiological simulations, researchers estimate that the SARS-CoV-2 virus likely circulated undetected for two months before the first human cases of COVID-19 were described in Wuhan, China in late-December 2019.
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A new study suggests current vaccines and monoclonal antibody therapies provide less neutralizing activity against the U.K. and South Africa variants of SARS-CoV-2.
Source: Study of coronavirus variants predicts virus evolving to escape current vaccines — ScienceDaily
RNA abstract concept | Credit: © Alessia / stock.adobe.comRNA abstract concept illustration (stock image).
Source: Origin of life: The chicken-and-egg problem — ScienceDaily
Neanderthals — the closest ancestor to modern humans — possessed the ability to perceive and produce human speech, according to a new study.
Source: Neanderthals had the capacity to perceive and produce human speech — ScienceDaily