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Comb Jellies Were the Earliest Animals, Genetic Study Finds

One of the longest-running controversies in evolutionary biology has been: What was the oldest branch of the animal family tree? For the best part of a century, sponges were held…

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Anthropologists Say: We’re Smarter Than Ancestors Because of Blood Flow to the Brain

The evolution of human intelligence is something that tickles the imagination of anthropologists for years. How do we do this crucial step that has separated us from other primates and…

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Scientists Discovered Oldest Plants On Earth

We believe that the beginning of complex life on Earth was roughly 1.2 billion years ago. However, we have to reconsider it, thanks to the discovery of plants, which seems…

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Neanderthals Were Cannibals

Neanderthals were our close relatives. They were sharing with us 99.7% of DNA. Scientists from the University of Oxford estimated that they extinct between 41,000 and 39,000 years ago. The…

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Why Humans Lost Their Penis Bones

Have you ever wondered why humans lost their penis bones? Especially when most mammals have one. Chimpanzees have them. Raccoons too. So, why they have the baculum and we don’t?…

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Virus Evolution: Men Are More Vulnerable Than Women

Virus evolution is an inter-disciplinary field worked on by scholars from virology, evolutionary biology, epidemiology, ecology, computational biology, and genomics. Virus Evolution provides a venue for in-depth discussion on the…

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Moms Delivering Via C-Section Disturb Evolution

Mom’s who deliver their babies via C-Section may be contributing to the evolution of the human species. Every year, the incidence of babies being delivered via caesarean section has been…

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Time to Rewrite Human Evolution

The genome of the oldest human DNA ever has just been sequenced. The DNA was taken from a thigh bone and tooth of a 430,000 year old skeleton found in…

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Car-Sized Armadillos

If you have never been up close to an armadillo, it is hard to describe how strange and freak looking they really are. Back when giant ground sloths and saber-toothed…

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Zebra cousin went extinct 100 years ago. Now, it’s back

OOTBS Thought: This feels a little Jurassic Park…only different. Instead of using fossilized DNA to bring back an exact species, they have used DNA manipulation to create a similar looking…

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