#MolecularClock analysis shows #bacteria used oxygen long before widespread photosynthesis
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-molecular-clock-analysis-bacteria-oxygen.html

A geological timescale for bacterial #evolution and oxygen adaptation https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ADP1853

"the earliest aerobic transition occurred in an ancestor of photosynthetic #cyanobacteria, indicating that the ability to utilize trace amounts of oxygen may have allowed the development of genes central to oxygenic #photosynthesis."

2-Apr-2025
Footprints reveal prehistoric Scottish lagoons were stomping grounds for giant #Jurassic #dinosaurs
New site contains over 130 footprints and trackways up to 12-meters-long

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1079146 #science #evolution #paleontology #Skye #Scotland

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Ralph Holloway, Pioneering Anthropologist in Brain Evolution Studies, Dies at 90
Ralph Holloway, a distinguished anthropologist renowned f...
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#Mammals were adapting from life in the trees to living on the ground before dinosaur-killing asteroid https://phys.org/news/2025-04-mammals-life-trees-ground-dinosaur.html

Down to earth: therian mammals became more terrestrial towards the end of the Cretaceous https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pala.70004

"plant life changed toward the end of the #Cretaceous, with flowering #plants creating more diverse habitats on the ground... The vegetational habitat was more important for the course of Cretaceous mammalian #evolution than any influence from #dinosaurs"

Hunt for the Oldest DNA videoneat.com/documentaries/26…

Such an amazing documentary!!!

People who champion the nuclear family and insist that it is the only way to have a healthy family, are ridiculously misinformed.

The nuclear family -- as has been enforced by monarchial, state, and corporate powers -- is an exceedingly recent invention.

Humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years.

We evolved to be cooperative breeders, with communities that heavily engaged in alloparenting

Oldest human face in Western Europe found in Spain, rewriting early European settlement history

A fascinating fossil find in Spain’s Atapuerca Mountains has revealed that the beginnings of human habitation in Western Europe predate what scientists previously believed...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/03/oldest-human-face-in-western-europe-found-in-spain/

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"You’ve probably heard of spooky black cats, chaotic orange cats, and distinguished-looking tuxedo cats. If you’re really into cats, you might have even lesser-known color variants like seal point and ticked tabby."
#weirdnews #cats #caturday #pets #science #evolution #news
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a64323622/new-cat-color-discovered/

25,000-year-old mammoth bone site discovered in Lower Austria

An archaeological team from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) has made a groundbreaking discovery in Langmannersdorf an der Perschling, Lower Austria, where remains of at least five mammoths, stone tools, and evidence of ivory processing were found...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/03/mammoth-bone-site-discovered-in-lower-austria/

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https://www.sciencealert.com/marmots-just-settled-a-154-year-old-evolution-debate

Apparently, some 530 million years ago (give or take) in the #Cambrian age, after about 2.5 billion years of rather plodding #evolution, bi-lateral symmetry appeared in animals (after some dabbling in tri-lateral and penta-lateral symmetry) and when brains showed up they were bi-lateral. #Vertebrate, but still #jawless, fishes were swimming after each other for lunch. #Eyes, which had already existed for a long while, started showing up in pairs, at the head end of the fishes. (1/3)

Have Earth's oceans always been blue?

@PopularScience reports on research suggesting the sea might have glimmered with green hues for over 2 billion years.

https://flip.it/sgB8.j

Researchers uncover lost human lineage that shaped our evolution

A revolutionary study in genetics has upended the long-standing belief that modern humans originated from a single continuous lineage...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/03/researchers-uncover-lost-human-lineage-that-shaped-our-evolution/

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#Bird #genome study offers insights into #pandemic disease #evolution.

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-bird-genome-insights-pandemic-disease.html

#Predators and #prey: size matters. “A chickadee is almost too small to have any [enemies]. That whimsical fellow called #Evolution, having enlarged the dinosaur until he tripped over his own toes, tried shrinking the chickadee until he was just too big to be snapped up by flycatchers as an insect, and just too little to be pursued by hawks and owls as meat. Then he regarded his handiwork and laughed. Everyone laughs at so small a bundle of large enthusiasms."

--Aldo Leopold
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#Evolution for #windows .... is that an actual thing?
Would like to have an alternative to #outlook that can handle #owa with #exchange right out of the box.
#Thunderbird cannot handle Exchange, you need a (paid) plugin 4 this.
Any tips?