Evolution Diary

A Cornell study of genome sequences in African-Americans, European-Americans and Chinese suggests that natural selection has caused as much as 10 percent of the human genome to change in some populations in the last 15,000 to 100,000 years, when people began migrating from Africa. (…)

July 11, 2007—In the mystery surrounding one of the sea’s most elusive creatures, this body is more of a clue than a victim. (…)

Breakthrough at new McMaster institute will dramatically change focus for human stem cell science
Hamilton, ON. (…)

Russian hunter traipsing through Russia’s remote Arctic Yamalo-Nenetsk region in May noticed what he thought was a reindeer carcass sticking out of the damp snow. (…)

Adventurers exploring a cave on an island in the Indian Ocean have discovered the most complete and well-preserved dodo skeleton ever found, scientists reported yesterday. (…)