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The ‘Boring Billion’: How Earth’s Longest Evolutionary Pause Shaped Life as We Know It
The history of life on Earth is a tale of slow burns and sudden explosions, shaped by environmental upheavals and ...
Scientists Say We May Have Been Wrong About the Origin of Life
In a new peer reviewed analysis, scientists quantify amino acids before and after our “last universal common ancestor.” The ...
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The History of Death and How It Became the Number 1 Fear
How death shifted from a sacred part of life to our greatest fear—and learn how to reclaim its meaning with love, rituals, ...
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Scientists Uncover 555-Million-Year Fossil That Could Rewrite the History of Life on Earth
A stunning fossil discovery in South Australia has provided a groundbreaking glimpse into one of evolution’s greatest mysteries. A 555-million-year-old worm-like organism, Uncus dzaugisi, has ...
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Protein shapes can help untangle life's ancient history
The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, according to a new study. It is the first time researchers use data from ...
New fossil species sheds light on divergent life-history strategies in early land plants
The initial radiation of vascular land plants, evidenced by increases in both diversity and morphological disparity during ...
3D protein shapes can resolve ancient evolutionary connections in tree of life
The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, ...
How Protein Shapes Are Rewriting the Story of Life on Earth
Researchers have innovatively merged protein structural data with genetic sequences to construct evolutionary trees, ...