Evolution Diary

Singapore: How humans evolved could one day be scientifically reconstucted through a project involving Singapore’s A*STAR scientists, who will help collect tissue and DNA samples from 10,000 species of animals. (…)

Using hairs from woolly mammoths, scientists have sequenced an extensive genome of these elephant cousins, a new report says. (…)

Stefan Cover, a curatorial assistant at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, recalls the photograph on the computer screen that Christian Rabeling was showing him. (…)

VANCOUVER — A tiny, prickly fish is helping B.C. researchers understand how organisms evolve in response to new or changing environments. (…)

Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans likely did not interbreed, according to a new DNA study.
The research further suggests that small population numbers helped do in our closest relatives. (…)