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What rodent thumbnails tell us about their (evolutionary) world domination  The Washington Post Most rodents have thumbnails instead of claws: It might help explain how they took over the world  Phys.org Tiny thumbnails may be key for rodents’ global takeover  Science News Rodents’ secret weapon? Thumbnails.  Popular Science Source link

Experimental animals and embryo collection D. melanogaster embryos were collected on apple juice agar plates with yeast paste at 22 °C or at the temperatures indicated below. Laboratory cultures of M. abdita (Sander strain) were maintained as described52. M. abdita embryos were collected on apple juice agar plates with fish food paste at 25 °C. The laboratory cultures of C. riparius (Bergstrom …

Researchers from France, China, the UK, and Greece revealed that the Petralona cranium is at least 286,000 years old, placing it firmly in the Middle Pleistocene era. A new scientific study has shed fresh light on one of Europe’s most important human fossils, the Petralona cranium, discovered in a cave in northern Greece more than six decades ago. Long the …

Ancient Greek skull rewrites human evolutionary timeline | The Jerusalem Post Jerusalem Post/Archaeology Researchers from France, China, the UK, and Greece revealed that the Petralona cranium is at least 286,000 years old, placing it firmly in the Middle Pleistocene era. The reconstructed skull of a man who died 12,000 years ago in what is now Vietnam. (photo credit: C.M. Stimpson) …

Two evolutionary changes underpinning human bipedalism are discovered  Reuters The evolution of hominin bipedalism in two steps  Nature Uncovering the Genes That Let Our Ancestors Walk Upright  The New York Times New Research Reveals How Reshaping Pelvis Helped Human Ancestors Walk Upright  Sci.News Irish scientist helps crack mystery of how humans came to stand on two legs  The Irish Independent Source link

Birds are not merely descendants of dinosaurs — they are dinosaurs. For Yale evolutionary biologist and ornithologist Richard Prum, birds have been a lifelong passion and a window into some of evolution’s most intriguing mysteries. In a wide-ranging conversation with co-host Janna Levin, Prum traces the deep evolutionary origins of feathers, which he argues first emerged not for flight but …

Facebook Tweet Email Link Modern humans are evolutionary survivors, thriving generation after generation while our ancient relatives died out. Now, new research into our brain chemistry suggests that an enzyme unique to Homo sapiens may have made us more efficient water seekers than our closest extinct relatives. About 600,000 years ago, modern humans genetically diverged from the lineage that produced …

Ethiopian fossils reveal new species in human evolutionary lineage  Reuters New discoveries of Australopithecus and Homo from Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia  Nature In ancient teeth, clues of human evolution — and perhaps a new species  The Washington Post Meet the Newly Discovered Human Ancestor Identified Just by Its Teeth  Scientific American Ancient Teeth Suggest Our Ancestors Lived Side by Side With a Mysterious Hominin  ScienceAlert Source link

A groundbreaking study, recently published in Papers in Palaeontology, has revealed the oldest known fossil of a docodontan mammal, shedding new light on the evolutionary journey of early mammals. The discovery, led by Dr. Sofia Patrocínio and her team, presents the oldest definitive docodontan found to date, narrowing the knowledge gap between early docodontans and later mammalian species by 7 …

One-in-70-Trillion: An Evolutionary Biologist Explains the Mind-Bending Probability of Our Existence  Open Culture Source link