Archive for the Evolution Articles

Neanderthals never inter bred with humans

Oct 29 : European scientists have rebuffed the theory of inter breeding between Neanderthals and men, thus settling one of the biggest riddles in anthropology.

Human race to split into elite and ugly species 11000 years hence

Oct 28 : The human race will one day split into two separate species, an attractive,

Monkeys, just as humans possess Machiavellian Intelligence

Oct 25 : Humans and rhesus macaques share not only about 93 percent of their DNA sequence, but they also have something more in common - Machiavellian Intelligence.

St. Bernard’s evolution challenges theory of creationism, says study

Oct 25 : Selective breeding rather than natural selection might have led the St Bernard

Earliest bats developed flight skills before echolocation over 50 mln years ago

Oct 24 : Bats developed fight skills before echolocation, a new study presented at the 67th annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) in Austin, Texas, has said.

Modern humans, Neanderthals shared common speech gene

Oct 19 : A new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology has revealed that Neanderthals and modern humans shared a common gene

Earliest evidence of existence of reptiles unearthed in Canada

Oct 17 : Palaeontologists have found the earliest evidence for the existence of reptiles in Canada.

Gossip influences us more than the truth

Oct 16 : Gossip is more powerful and influential than the truth itself, a new study has shown.

No proof yet whether Neanderthals were our direct ancestors

Oct.14 : An enduring question in evolution as to whether Neanderthals were direct ancestors

The micro-organism that survived for 80 million years without sex

Oct 12 : A team of researchers have found how Bdelloid rotifer, a class of asexual microorganism, has benefitted from almost 80 million years of no sex.