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NYU dental professor Dr. Timothy Bromage selected to receive the 2010 Max Planck Research Award By News Releases (New York University) New York University College of Dentistry's Dr. Timothy Bromage has been selected to receive the 2010 Max Planck Research Award. Dr. Bromage will collaborate with Dr. Friedemann Schrenk of Frankfurt's Senckenberg Research Institute to research the microanatomical structure of bones and teeth, and the links between metabolic states, growth rates, life spans, and biological features such as sex and body size.

Utah paleontologist part of international team to discover oldest known dinosaur relative By News Releases (University of Utah) Until now, paleontologists have generally believed that the closest relatives of dinosaurs possibly looked a little smaller in size, walked on two legs and were carnivorous. However, a research team including Randall Irmis, curator of paleontology at the Utah Museum of Natural History and assistant professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Utah has made a recent discovery to dispel this hypothesis.

Strategic research program needed to determine whether, how past climate influenced human evolution By News Releases (National Academy of Sciences) Understanding how past climate may have influenced human evolution could be dramatically enhanced by an international cross-disciplinary research program.

Recently analyzed fossil was not human ancestor as claimed, anthropologists say By News Releases (University of Texas at Austin) A fossil that was celebrated last year as a possible "missing link" between humans and early primates is actually a forebear of modern-day lemurs and lorises, according to two papers by scientists at the University of Texas at Austin, Duke University and the University of Chicago.

Biopics: Popular film genre evolving not expiring By News Releases (Indiana University School of Medicine) Dennis Bingham, Ph.D., of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapois, is the author of "Whose Lives Are They Anyway?" (Rutgers University Press) which traces and analyzes the evolution of male and female film biography. We watch and will continue to watch biopics "so as to plumb that mystery of humanness, the inability completely to know another person, and the absolute importance of knowing them and ourselves," he wrote.

Ancient DNA from rare fossil reveals that polar bears evolved recently and adapted quickly By News Releases (University at Buffalo) A rare, ancient polar bear fossil discovered in Norway in 2004 is yielding a treasure trove of essential information about the age and evolutionary origins of the species whose future is now seen as synonymous with the devastation wrought by climate change.

Ancient DNA from rare fossil reveals that polar bears evolved recently and adapted quickly By News Releases (Penn State) DNA from a rare, ancient polar bear fossil is yielding information about the response of the species to the devastation wrought by past climate changes. Analyses of the fossil's DNA reveals key pieces of the evolutionary history of both polar bears and brown bears. The fossil's DNA is, by far, the oldest mammal mitochondrial genome to be sequenced -- about twice the age of the oldest genome sequence from a woolly mammoth.

Scientists reveal driving force behind evolution By News Releases (University of Liverpool) Scientists at the University of Liverpool have provided the first experimental evidence that shows that evolution is driven most powerfully by interactions between species, rather than adaptation to the environment.

Intelligent people have 'unnatural' preferences and values that are novel in human evolution By News Releases (American Sociological Association) Higher intelligence is associated with liberal political ideology, atheism, and men's (but not women's) preference for sexual exclusivity. More intelligent people are statistically more likely to exhibit social values and religious and political preferences that are novel to human evolution. Specifically, liberalism and atheism, and for men (but not women), preference for sexual exclusivity correlate with higher intelligence, a new study finds.

Michigan State uses NSF grant to study evolution in action By News Releases (Michigan State University) Michigan State University announced today that it was awarded a $25 million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a center, bringing together scientists from across the nation to study evolution in action in both natural and virtual settings.