isolation and high genetic drift. However, with whom the Australian population shows a greater genetic affinity is with the Spanish population, a fact that evidences its ancestral European origin. In…

Why do we get old? Why do we have to die? These questions have been one of the great challenges of humanity. We can see it in the religions, which…

published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution . The research was carried out in the species of beetle Callosobruchus maculatus but, according to the first author of the work…

cooling of the climate. At this time, the populations of the Asian part of the continent began to diverge from the European ones until they became completely isolated 10,000 years…

evolutionarily older than angiosperms. In the fourth case, the pollen comes from water lilies, aquatic plants of the nymphaea family (a very primitive group of angiosperms). “Kateretid beetles initially fed…

professor Xavier Delclòs, from the Faculty of Earth Sciences and the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) of the University of Barcelona, ​​and researcher David Peris, a doctorate in the UB and…

”, explains Pablo Cano, co-author of the work. “It turns out that for the same amount of charge and rotation – adds the researcher – we can have several types…

Einstein’s theory of general relativity is not a fundamental theory, but rather an effective theory that governs the behavior of gravity when it is not too strong. How is this…

the marine environment due to stagnant waters and anoxia; the rise in sea level; global warming; acidification of the oceanic environment; and the displacement of the climate belts towards the…

La Cerradura. “It is a very exposed outcrop, free of vegetation, in which we located marine deposits from around 180 million years ago, corresponding to the westernmost part of the…

the area like myself have been warning about for many years.” What questions remain to be answered? The puzzle of the origin of SARS-CoV-2 is incomplete. Holmes hopes that the…

on its origin. ” However, it is striking that pangolin viruses contain some genomic regions that are closely related to the human virus .” To delve into the subject, it…

coronavirus. This type of virus has the ability to jump and adapt from one species to another causing infectious diseases called zoonotic, which pointed to a possible animal origin for…

expression. In plants there are several families of histone acetyl transferases, among which is NuA4 (for Nucleosome Acetyltransferase of H4) that mediates the acetylation of various types of histones. Although…

extensive collaboration between different fields of research, from paleoanthropology to biochemistry, proteomics and genomics of populations, as well as between different institutions. The recovery of ancient genetic material from very…

material recovered to date barely exceeds 400,000 years ”, explains Enrico Cappellini, associate professor at the Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, and principal leader of the group of research. “Now,…

and innovative instrumental implementations is essential to open new lines of research that allow us to answer the large number of questions that scientists ask ourselves every day”, concludes Bueno.800,000-year-old…

up made only of matter, the leftovers of the Big Bang”, explains Juan Manuel Bueno, professor at the University of Murcia (UMU). Neutrinos and FBI experiment To demonstrate this property…

the cosmos and offers alternative scenarios for possible alien biospheres. «It has been found that life is very tenacious and that on Earth it appears in all those places where…

explains Carme Jordi, professor of the Department of Quantum Physics and Astrophysics of the Faculty of Physics of the UB. And he points out: “To find out the chemical composition…

the foreword to the book. «And he did it because there was cooperation, not competition, between the original inhabitants cell phones”. With an interdisciplinary perspective, the book underlines the value…

saved , with a very approximate estimate that considers a mixed energy production but mainly based on fossil fuels, the average of several countries in the world. In a year,…

Evolution’ . According to the UMA researcher, so far, there are few experimental studies that explore the adaptive response of photosynthetic microorganisms to the new scenarios generated by global change.…

elsewhere “. Illustration of Kongonaphon kely, the ‘little insect killer’ relative of dinosaurs and pterosaurs discovered in Madagascar. / Alex Boersma / PNASThe increase in the average temperature of the…

pterosaur lineages originated from extremely small ancestors and has important implications for their paleobiology. “However, discoveries like Kongonaphon help us to understand much better the early evolution of the ornithodiran…

to Climb trees. Some features of modernity currently observed in the human species could be seen in the 1.5 million-year-old juvenile H. erectus from Turkana, Kenya, which is the most…