Evolution Diary

Ancient lizard offers evolutionary clues
A University of Alberta paleontologist has helped discover the existence of a 95 million-year-old snakelike marine animal, a finding that provides not only the earliest example of limbloss in lizards but the first example of limbloss in an aquatic lizard. (…)

Research suggests that stone-banging by South American monkeys could be a socially-learned skill
Fresh evidence that suggests monkeys can learn skills from each other, in the same manner as humans, has been uncovered by a University of Cambridge researcher. (…)

NYUCD study finds humans and their oral bacteria evolved from a common African ancestor
A New York University College of Dentistry (NYUCD) research team has found the first oral bacterial evidence supporting the dispersal of modern Homo sapiens out of Africa to Asia. (…)

Modern man”s earliest known close ancestor was significantly more apelike than previously believed, a New York University College of Dentistry professor has found. (…)

Steve Jones will talk about what evolution is, about new evidence that men and chimps are close relatives and about how we are, nevertheless, unique and why creationism does more harm to religion than it does to science. (…)