Tag Archives: evolution

The life cycle of the enigmatic Trichoplax

Posted on May 20, 2011 by admin

Tweet Way back in 2008 I wrote a brief blog article about the sequencing of the genome of a rather poorly unusual organism, Trichoplax adhaerens (What the heck is a Placozoan, anyway?).  The interest there was that the genome had … Continue reading →

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Darwin 200: Re-Reading "On the Origin of Species"

Posted on February 15, 2009 by admin

Tweet The journal Current Biology invited a number of prominent biologists from a number of disciplines to re-read Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, and to write commentaries – they can be found at (Re)Reading The Origin. Charles Darwin’s 1859 book … Continue reading →

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Neanderthal genome

Posted on February 14, 2009 by admin

Tweet After a bit of teasing in the blogosphere that the draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome would be released in time for Charles Darwin’s birthday this week, I was eagerly looking for a paper.  Instead what I find are … Continue reading →

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In the Journals – Chemical evidence of multicellular life 635 million years ago

Posted on February 6, 2009 by admin

Tweet A paper in the current issue of Nature [Love et al (2009) Nature 457; 718-722] suggests that multicellular life existed about 100 million years before the explosion of bilaterian animals in the Cambrian. The evidence comes from analysis of … Continue reading →

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Fossil foetal (proto-)whale

Posted on February 4, 2009 by admin

Tweet Quite a few of the bloggers at ScienceBlogs have been writing about an exciting new fossil find: a newly discovered fossil ancestor of whales.  The exciting thing here is that the fossil contains the remains of foetal whales.  Here’s … Continue reading →

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