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Fossils show puzzling lack of evolution during last ice age peak
Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to ...
Oxygenation in the ocean may have occurred earlier than previously thought, offering new insights into Earth's evolution
Several key moments in Earth's history help us humans answer the question "How did we get here?" These moments also shed ...
How the evolution of a single gene allowed the plague to adapt, prolonging the pandemics
Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to ...
New Scientist on MSN1d
We’re getting close to recreating the first step in evolution of life
Life is thought to have begun when RNA began replicating itself, and researchers have got close to achieving this in the lab ...
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Evolution of a single gene allowed the plague to adapt, survive and kill much of humanity over many centuries
Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of years by adjusting its virulence and the length of time ...