Originstag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2008-09-30:/origins//72009-11-16T21:24:45ZA History of BeginningsMovable Type Open Source 4.1Penguin DNA May Reset the Molecular Clocktag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/origins//7.41712009-11-16T19:41:01Z2009-11-16T21:24:45ZElizabeth CulottaDoes Studying Why People Believe in God Challenge God's Existence?tag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/origins//7.41642009-11-13T17:07:40Z2009-11-13T20:30:57ZElizabeth CulottaHow Weblike Is the Tree of Life?tag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/origins//7.41352009-11-06T19:02:30Z2009-11-06T19:29:38Zby Julia Galef One of the most iconic symbols of evolution—the tree of life (left), a visual metaphor for the branching ancestry of species—has recently become one of its most controversial. The idea of a tree dates back to Charles...Elizabeth PennisiOn the Origin of Religiontag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/origins//7.41162009-11-05T15:38:25Z2009-11-05T22:07:53Zby Elizabeth Culotta Every human society has had its gods, whether worshiped from Gothic cathedrals or Mayan pyramids. In all cultures, humans pour resources into elaborate religious buildings and rituals. But religion offers no obvious boost to survival and reproduction....Elizabeth CulottaChange in Regulatory DNA Responsible for Stickleback Evolutiontag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/origins//7.41132009-11-04T20:09:10Z2009-11-04T20:04:57Zby Julia Galef CHICAGO, ILLINOIS—The birthplace of modern evolutionary biology can arguably be located at a landmark 1959 conference at the University of Chicago, which synthesized the then-new discoveries of DNA and genetics with Charles Darwin's observations on evolution. Last...Elizabeth PennisiAnt and Tree Cooperation a Delicate Balancetag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/origins//7.41072009-11-02T18:29:00Z2009-11-02T19:49:50Zby Elizabeth Pennisi Charles Darwin worked hard to figure out how cooperation within a species—self-sacrifice among worker bees, for example—could have evolved. But he was stumped when it came to understanding cooperation between species. In his book, On the Origin...Elizabeth PennisiWhat Ever Happened to Kenyanthropus platyops?tag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/origins//7.40902009-10-29T14:42:20Z2009-10-29T16:05:23Zby Michael Balter Human evolution research is not for the faint-hearted. Hominin fossils are rare and hard to find. And more often than not, no sooner do anthropologists announce a big discovery than other researchers argue that they have it...Elizabeth CulottaPrimatologists Go Ape Over Arditag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/origins//7.40702009-10-26T17:26:16Z2009-10-26T20:02:02Zby Michael Balter LONDON—When Tim White of the University of California, Berkeley, agreed to speak at a human origins meeting* at the Royal Society here, he sent no abstract and provided only a one-word title: “Ardipithecus.” But that one word...Elizabeth CulottaTackling Brain Evolution With All Eight Armstag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/origins//7.40662009-10-23T19:21:32Z2009-10-24T13:41:06Z by Greg Miller Cephalopods—octopuses, squid, and their relatives—ruled the seas in the Cambrian era, some 500 million years ago. But their world changed in a big way with the Cambrian Explosion, a rapid diversification of life on Earth that...Elizabeth PennisiB Cells With a Taste for Microbestag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/origins//7.40342009-10-22T00:03:24Z2009-10-22T18:05:08Zby Mitch Leslie Reptiles look old school, and they have old school B cells that retain an ancient ability our B cells have lost, says a new study published today. Our B cells cannot engulf invading bacteria, but a turtle's...Mitchell LesliePrize-Winning Researcher Ventures Into Unknown: The Origin of Eukaryotestag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/origins//7.40492009-10-21T17:14:33Z2009-10-21T18:08:51Zby Carl Zimmer As I was working on my essay on the evolution of eukaryotes, I spoke a lot to Nick Lane. Lane is trained as a biochemist, but he's also a prolific author (most recently of the book Life...John TravisYes, Ardi Evolved From Apestag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/origins//7.39782009-10-08T03:30:50Z2009-10-07T18:19:31Zby Ann Gibbons “Ardi,” the oldest known skeleton of a hominin, or member of the human family, has grabbed headlines around the world since her unveiling in Science Thursday. Not surprisingly, the press coverage of the 4.4-million-year-old Ardipithecus ramidus has...Elizabeth CulottaOn the Origin of Ecological Communitiestag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/origins//7.39392009-10-01T15:48:40Z2009-10-01T21:27:52ZElizabeth PennisiFor the Faithful, Eusocialitytag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/origins//7.38832009-09-29T16:46:07Z2009-09-29T22:33:23ZElizabeth PennisiDarwin Film Finds U.S. Distributortag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/origins//7.39332009-09-28T15:50:44Z2009-09-28T16:01:42ZThe Hollywood Reporter last week noted that Creation had finally been picked for the U.S. market. Now Americans can decide thumbs-up or thumbs-down....John Travis