New Genes Spring from Non-Coding DNA
“Where do new genes come from?” is a long-standing question in genetics and evolutionary biology. A new study from researchers at the University of California, Davis, published Jan. 23 in…
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Frogs and Bats Use Water Ripples to Eavesdrop on Frog Calls
Communication requires a sender, a receiver, and a message. But communication doesn’t take place in a vacuum. Often, there are unintended receivers listening in and unintentional messages getting across. Illustrating…
When Danger is in the Eye of the Beholder – UCLA Anthropologists Study How, Why We Read Into Potential Peril.
They went boating alone without life vests and gave no thought to shimmying up very tall coconut trees. And although they were only figments of a writer’s imagination, the fictional…
'Be Different or Die' Does Not Drive Evolution, Bird Study Finds.
A new study has found that species living together are not forced to evolve differently to avoid competing with each other, challenging a theory that has held since Darwin’s Origin…
Study Confirms a Gene Linked to Asperger Syndrome and Empathy.
A study to be published later this month in the journal Molecular Autism confirms previous research that people with Asperger Syndrome (AS) are more likely to carry specific variations in a particular…
Cavefish Study Supports Controversial Evolutionary Mechanism.
To the classic case studies of evolution, such as Darwin’s finches and the peppered moth, a small group of researchers would now add the Mexican tetra. This small, freshwater fish…