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Hints of Life’s Start Found in a Giant Virus
...a bioinformatics specialist at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, traced the evolutionary history of proteins found in several giant viruses in a 2012 study in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology....
How Structure Arose in the Primordial Soup
...any of these remarkable biological innovations came about. “It’s very hard to infer even the relative ordering of evolutionary events before the last common ancestor,” said Greg Fournier, a geobiologist...
The Information Theory of Life
...from? We of course know that all life on Earth has enormous amounts of information that comes from evolution, which allows information to grow slowly. Before evolution, you couldn’t have...
Waiting for the Revolution
...the revolution? Quantum mechanics remains our latest revolution. That said, some scientists are waiting for an irreducible final theory. Reductionism has proven to be an extraordinary successful method of investigation....
Evolutionary Math and Just-So Stories
...Shows How to Ensure Evolution,” John Rennie described a mathematical study led by Martin Nowak, who directs an evolutionary dynamics lab at Harvard University, and Krishnendu Chatterjee, a computer scientist...
In Bees, a Hunt for Roots of Social Behavior
...who studies a different bee with similar behavioral flexibility. “L. albipes is a nice way of looking at social evolution within a species.” Among the bee varieties that can adopt...
New Twist Found in the Story of Life’s Start
...of sequences — including its own. And it’s still getting better. The ribozyme in the paper emerged after just 16 rounds of evolution, a shockingly short run for this kind...
In Newly Created Life-Form, a Major Mystery
...a cellular chassis that scientists can build on. Researchers can embellish the genome to create new organisms, which could help them to better understand stages of evolution lost to time....
Hunger Game: Is Honesty Between Animals Always the Best Policy?
...chances of mating). Will evolution program you to be honest, growing a lightweight tail that reflects your true fitness? Or will it have you risk life and limb by cultivating...