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Nov. 23, 2020 —Palaeontologists have provided new proof of parallel evolution: conodonts, early vertebrates from the Permian period, adapted to new habitats in almost identical ways despite living in different ...
Dec. 11, 2020 —Researchers resurrected the preserved eggs of a shrimp-like crustacean to examine long-standing questions about adaptive ...
June 15, 2021 —Plants evolve specialized defense chemicals through the combined effects of genes, geography, demography and environmental ...
Sep. 30, 2021 —Researchers have found that the ancestral role of the proteins KNOX and BELL is activation of zygote development in a model basal land plant species, functioning in much the same way as in a ...
Sep. 29, 2020 —Scientists have challenged a popular theory behind the evolution of similar traits in island ...
July 20, 2022 —Evolution has long been viewed as a rather random process, with the traits of species shaped by chance mutations and environmental events -- and therefore largely unpredictable. But an international ...
Feb. 26, 2021 —The maternal care of offspring is one of the behavioral drivers that has led some bee species to have an ever-expanding social life over the history of evolution, new research has found. By virtue of ...
Mar. 24, 2021 —Researchers find that the earliest bacteria had the tools to perform a crucial step in photosynthesis, changing how we think life evolved on ...
May 5, 2023 —Researchers have proposed a new model for the evolution of higher brain functions and behaviors in the Hymenoptera order of insects. The team compared the Kenyon cells, a type of neuronal cell, in ...
Mar. 24, 2021 —Usually scaled, the skin of fish can also be naked or made up of bony plates. Researchers have reconstructed the evolution of the skin structures in fish, going back to the common ancestor, more than ...