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Water Repellency As The First Step To Life On Land A Billion Years Ago
Water droplets simply roll off – and clean the surface and reduce infestation with fungal spores, for example. But not only plants have the “lotus effect,” which Professor Wilhelm Barthlott […]
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New Insights Into Major Transitions On The Tree Of Life
The latest Virtual Issue from Genome Biology and Evolution highlights articles that provide new insight into the deep evolutionary relationships among organisms and the origin of eukaryotes. The latest Virtual […]
Posted inPlant Biology
How Plants Colonized The Land On Earth
University of Copenhagen researchers have shed new light on how plant life became established on the surface of our planet. Specifically, they demonstrated that two genes are indispensable for allowing […]
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Njordarchaeota, A New Candidate For A Sister Group To Eukaryotes
The emergence of eukaryotic cells is considered as a critical biological evolutionary event on Earth. The origin of eukaryotes and eukaryosis are frontier issues in both life and Earth sciences. […]
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Novel Insights Into The Evolutionary Link Between Amphibian And Mammalian Peptides
In evolutionary biology, tracing back ancestral genetic elements is a quest in reconstructing the history of life on earth. The presence of similar or “homologous” genes in different species speaks […]
Posted inBiogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Extremeophiles and Extreme Environments, Genomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics, Microbiology & Virology, Press Release, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
Bacterial Evolution In Ancient Sub-seafloor Sediments
Micro-organisms persisting deep below the seafloor for millions of years continue to evolve despite living at the energy limit to life.
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Research Shows That We're Surprisingly Similar To Earth's First Animals
According to a UC Riverside study, 555-million-year-old oceanic creatures from the Ediacaran period share genes with today’s animals, including humans. “None of them had heads or skeletons. Many of them […]
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Artificial Intelligence Finds Surprising Patterns In Earth's Biological Mass Extinctions
Charles Darwin’s landmark opus, On the Origin of the Species, ends with a beautiful summary of his theory of evolution, “There is a grandeur in this view of life, with […]
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Did Early Life Need Long, Complex Molecules To Make Cell-like Compartments?
Protocell compartments used as models for an important step in the early evolution of life on Earth can be made from short polymers. The short polymers, which better approximate the […]