7000 year old fossil human DNA discovered
Posted 08 Jul 2012 / 0Live Science “Cavemen Bones Yield Oldest Modern Human DNA“
A Minor Post, Genetics, Homo species, Human Evolution, PaleonotologyNew fossil find pushes back the origin of bilaterally symmetrical multicellular organisms
Posted 08 Jul 2012 / 0Live Science “Tiny Tracks of First Complex Animal Life Discovered“
A Minor Post, Macroevolution, PaleonotologyThe beginning of sex as we know it
Posted 20 Jan 2011 / 0This month’s edition of Scientific American features a cover article entitled “Dawn of the Deed” by John A. Long. Long describes how fossil discoveries he and his colleagues made several years ago have changed the way we understand the evolution of copulation. While there has long been evidence that the sharks have practiced internal fertilization Read More
Adaptation, Paleonotology, Sex and ReproductionIs the “hopelessly incomplete” fossil record a little better than we give it credit for?
Posted 19 Dec 2010 / 0Conventional wisdom has always been that fossils are impressionistic: although they can tell us a lot about the morphology of a great variety of organic structures, it has been assumed that all but the most recent of fossil remains contain none of the original material that made up the fossilized organism. A recent article in Read More
Paleonotology, Taphonomic Processes