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The history of life through evolutionary computation
2005
IEEE potentials
Our ability to infer evolutionary histories changed significantly following the discovery of the genetic code. ...
Fitch and Margoliash were the first to offer a computer process for the construction of phylogenetic trees from protein sequence information, specifically for 20 cytochrome C protein sequences (the most ...
Testing algorithm performance requires knowledge of a "ground truth" set of data from a known evolutionary history. ...
doi:10.1109/mp.2005.1502503
fatcat:jrs2ktyqsfhfte3clomwywiomi
Giant returns
2007
Current Biology
the skeleton of a 150 million year old Archeaopteryx, found in Germany, and five other dinosaur remains from what is one of the world's most significant fossil collections. ...
The Evolution in Action show bucks the trend for interactive displays and computer screens, by using real fossils to demonstrate the evolutionary process and its research. ...
doi:10.1016/j.cub.2007.07.024
fatcat:luwmhglqunabrjbtvzdl4qoubi
An uncensored page of fossil history
1981
Nature
in the nearby pastures 17 • Once evolutionary change in the fossil record -even in a record as well characterized as that unearthed by Williamsonis placed in the context of the known ability of living ...
"A history of the world, imperfectly kept, and written in a changing dialect. Of this history we possess the last volume alone ... ...
doi:10.1038/293427a0
fatcat:g7obbwsshbe3relhv7gnbxrx7q
Human Origins and the Search for "Missing Links"
2012
PLoS Biology
Acknowledgments I thank Kirsten Bos for comments on the manuscript. ...
A further advantage of digitalized virtual data is the ability for large-scale computational comparisons using hundreds of fossil and modern specimens. ...
The second ancient archaic genome was an even bigger surprise. It derived from a tiny finger bone unearthed in 2008 in the Denisova cave in Siberia. ...
doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001333
fatcat:evc7ofjj7rbt7kmueqpujvueoi
Paleontology and Evolution in the News
2012
Evolution: Education and Outreach
This paper is a review of recent media publications and journal articles about evolution and paleontology. ...
additional insights into the initial stages of the evolutionary history of dinosaurs. ...
Darwin's longforgotten fossils unearthed." ...
doi:10.1007/s12052-012-0400-7
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The Rise of Amphibians: 365 Million Years of Evolution
2010
Systematic Biology
Thus, a thorough understanding of their evolutionary history is essential to the resolution of vertebrate evolution and phylogeny. ...
Amphibians are a highly successful group with more than 6000 species and important ecological and evolutionary histories. ...
doi:10.1093/sysbio/syq015
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Evolution and adaptation: a tribute to Richard Essex Barwick
2014
Australian journal of zoology (Print)
After completing his MSc in the mid-1950s, Dick was appointed a junior lecturer at VUW, which sparked his second major area of investigation. ...
He was one of four adventurers (along with Colin Bull, Barry McKelvey and Peter Webb) who initiated studies of the biology and geology of the dry valleys of the Antarctic. ...
In the early 1980s, Dick began a collaboration with Ken Campbell of the ANU Department of Geology on fish fossils that had been unearthed in the Burrinjuck region of New South Wales and in the Gogo deposits ...
doi:10.1071/zov62n1_in
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Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology
2018
National Science Review
Th e paleoanthrological study mainly deals with origin and evolutionary history of fossil human and paleolithic archeology. ...
Hundreds of fossilized pterosaur eggs and embryos were unearthed with well embryos preserved in three dimensions, revealing the life history of the pterosaur. [Wang X et al. Science 358: 1197-1201]. ...
doi:10.1093/nsr/nwx138
fatcat:mdeq2v3fpbd5hc764ivxi5bbja
Paleoanthropology: How Old Is the Oldest Human?
2015
Current Biology
In the decades following OH7's discovery, a variety of fossils unearthed at Olduvai, as well as from other sites in Kenya, Ethiopia, Malawi and South Africa, have documented the earliest forms of the genus ...
Furthermore, the proposed candidates to the direct ancestry of these early Homo were far from convincing. Australopithecus garhi, a 2.5 Ma old fossil from the Bouri area in Ethiopia, was one of them. ...
doi:10.1016/j.cub.2015.04.009
pmid:26035786
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Fossils Found in Eastern Colorado
1919
Scientific American
(Continued on page 299)
Fossils Found in Eastern Colorado
By Lorena S. Ellis A VISIT to the Colorado Museum of Natural History in the City Park of Denver, Colo., and a talk with the director, J. ...
Of the mastodons two species were unearthed. ...
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican03221919-283
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Virology: Bornavirus enters the genome
2010
Nature
The term 'tetrapodomorph fishes' scarcely rolls off the tongue, but these are fossil animals that have a special place in the evolutionary history of vertebrates. ...
unearthed DNA derived from bornaviruses, leading to speculation about the role of these viruses in causing mutations with evolutionary and medical consequences. ...
doi:10.1038/463039a
pmid:20054386
pmcid:PMC3018739
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NSF SBE Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowship: Computer Science meets Anthropology: a novel approach for reconstructing locomotion from fossil human footprints (2014)
2019
Figshare
Main text of proposal for SBE Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. This grant was awarded in 2014. ...
of our evolutionary history. ...
Fossil hominin footprints at Ileret, Kenya continue to be unearthed from more than a half-dozen unique sites (Richmond et al., in prep) . ...
doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.7958927.v1
fatcat:x3sjzg57dbcr5i64h3g2bg6x2i
Virtual Neanderthals
2011
Current Biology
It became possible to sequence all the DNA extracted from a fossil, and to use DNA capture techniques to pull out certain parts of the genome that were of interest." ...
"Geochemistry and biochemistry of the fossil tissues unveil a wealth of information on the biology and behaviour of extinct humans. ...
doi:10.1016/j.cub.2011.10.031
pmid:22187730
fatcat:elbkmhinl5eexgrc2thbesw4ga
Decoding our cousins
2006
Nature
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Rex Dalton is a West Coast correspondent for Nature. ...
A Neanderthal genome could reveal much more about our recent evolutionary history. The main difficulty is getting hold of genetic material. ...
Alban Defleur of the Institute of Human Palaeontology in Paris hopes to return to the Moula-Guercy cave to find many more Neanderthal bones; it was here he unearthed evidence, published in a 1999 paper ...
doi:10.1038/442238a
pmid:16855562
fatcat:ziu3dke67vehndo7yjsk7tkflm
The fight for control over virtual fossils
2019
Nature
Morpho Source's vast cyber-crypt houses the skull of an extinct sea turtle from the Natural History Museum in London, extinct devil frogs from the Field Museum and pterosaur vertebrae from the American ...
The two agreed that MorphoSource should host data for the soon-to-be-published remains of a newly discovered species of early human that Berger's team had unearthed near Johannesburg. ...
doi:10.1038/d41586-019-00739-0
pmid:30842642
fatcat:463lnvtxwrd77ppnpiea6cv5em
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