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A comprehensive analysis of 10,575 genomes as part of a multi-national study led by researchers at UC San Diego has revealed close evolutionary proximity between the microbial domains at the base of the tree of life, the branching pattern of evolution described by Charles Darwin more than 160 years ago in his book, On the Origin of Species.

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Keywords: Tree Of Life, Uc San Diego, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego Department of Pediatrics, Rob Knight, Oiyun Zhu, Wayne Pfeiffer, Comet supercomputer, National Science Foundation (NSF) , ASTRAL

Neandertals collected clam shells and volcanic rock from the beach and coastal waters of Italy during the Middle Paleolithic, according to a study published January 15, 2020 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Paola Villa of the University of Colorado and colleagues.

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A database of 10,000 bird species shows how measurements of wings, beaks and tails can predict a species' role in an ecosystem.

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Keywords: Biodiversity, Bioinformatics, Biology, Ecology and Environment, Evolution

Hummingbirds are some of the most brightly-colored things in the entire world.

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Keywords: Biodiversity, Biology, Ecology, Zoology, veterinary science

A 550 million-year-old fossilized digestive tract found in the Nevada desert could be a key find in understanding the early history of animals on Earth.

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Most people associate the idea of creatures trapped in amber with insects or spiders, which are preserved lifelike in fossil tree resin.

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Early Stone Age populations living between 1.8 - 1.2 million years ago engineered their stone tools in complex ways to make optimised cutting tools, according to a new study by University of Kent and UCL.

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A team of researchers have found that dogs and wolves are equally good at cooperating with partners to obtain a reward. When tested in same-species pairs, dogs and wolves proved equally successful and efficient at solving a given problem.

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Life as we know it requires phosphorus, which is scarce. How did the early Earth supply this key ingredient? A University of Washington study, published Dec. 30 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, finds answers in certain types of carbonate-rich lakes.

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Keywords: Origin Of Life, Evolution, Biochemistry, cell, Cells, Cell Biology, Phosphorus, Origins Of Life, Ancient Earth, Early Earth, Lakes, Chemistry, Geochemistry, Earth Science