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Stories about: adaptations

Enzyme Adaptations Hint at Acidic Environment for Early Life The earliest forms of life that emerged on Earth may have appeared in an environment that was considerably hotter and more acidic than it is today. Studies of enzyme adaptations revealed this interesting fact in a recent research conducted at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).According to the new dat... 6 April 2011 01:31 GMT Understanding the Success of Invasive Plant Species Over the past few decades, as the world became more connected, investigators noticed a rise in the incidence of cases of invasive plant species taking up residence in new habitats, and starting to exert a complete dominance over these ecosystems.But there is an intrinsic contradiction in all of this. Native species h... 2 February 2011 16:01 GMT Human Evolution Accelerates For many years, a large number of scientists have argued that human evolution may have come to a standstill, and even that we may be regressing. These ideas were mostly founded on the lack of observable evidence to support the claim that we were still moving ahead on the evolutionary ladder. More recent data pointed ... 14 November 2009 03:35 GMT