Evolution Diary

Soil contaminants lead to rapid genetic adaptations in the nematode Acrobeloides nanus. (…)

The Society for College Science Teachers announced the release of its new position statement on the teaching of evolution on April 30, 2007. (…)

“How old are the oldest stars” Using ESO’s VLT, astronomers recently measured the age of a star located in our Galaxy. (…)

When male primates tussle and females develop their social skills it leaves a permanent mark – on their brains. (…)

BETHESDA, Md., Wed., May 9, 2007 – An international team, led by researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today announced the publication of the first genome of a marsupial, belonging to a South American species of opossum. (…)