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Posts filed under: biology

A missing link found?

March 28th, 2006, under ,

It has been reported that scientists in northeastern Ethiopia have discovered a skull that may have belonged to a small human ancestor that could be a missing link between homo erectus and homo sapiens.

Did microbes create the continents?

March 24th, 2006, under , ,

A study reported in New Scientist suggests that the formation of continents was influenced by the emergence of living organisms.

No warm ponds, either

February 14th, 2006, under ,

New experiments suggest that life maybe didn’t emerge from volcanic springs, after all.



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