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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 367

evolution

Swedish scientist Svante Paabo smiles at the award ceremony at the Hamburg Kerber Foundation's European Science Prize, in Hamburg, Germany, September 7, 2018. (Christian Charisius/dpa via AP)
October 3, 2022, 1:57 pm
Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Swedish evolutionary scientist
Svante Paabo, whose research showed genetic mixing between humans and Neanderthals and Denisovans, to receive nearly $900,000
By AP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: In this file photo taken on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016, a fox roams in the deserted town of Pripyat, some 3 kilometers from the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov, File)
July 21, 2022, 4:28 am
Mammals became warm-blooded 20 million years later than previously thought — study
International team of researchers finds new way to determine how body heat changed over time by examining inner ears of 56 extinct species of mammal ancestors
By Daniel Lawler
Drone bee orchid, Ophrys holosericea, seen near to the Rakit parking lot in the Carmel mountains, May 7, 2022. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel).
May 8, 2022, 6:26 pm
If it looks like a bee and smells like a bee, it may be a flower
In extraordinary example of evolution, bee orchids trick male bees into ‘mating’ with them, to help disperse pollen
By Sue Surkes
A woman feeling the cold inside a house. (LSOphoto via iStock by Getty Images)
October 5, 2021, 6:26 pm
Why do women feel the cold more? It’s evolution, so men keep a distance – study
Peer-reviewed Israeli research suggests males and females are programmed to prefer different temperatures; keeping the sexes apart curbs aggression, improves evolutionary chances
By Nathan Jeffay
In this February 14, 2016 illustrative photo, a woman in an alien costume poses for a picture during the annual Alien Festival in Capilla del Monte, Cordoba, Argentina, the site of an alleged UFO sighting 30 years ago. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
April 29, 2021, 4:25 am
How do aliens look? An Israeli zoologist’s down-to-earth theory on ET evolution
In his new book ‘The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy,’ Arik Kershenbaum argues that using earthly evolutionary biology is the best way to picture interstellar life
By Rich Tenorio
A reconstruction of the 1,600,000 years old Homo erectus 'Turkana boy' is seen at the Neanderthal Museum in Mettmann, Germany, July 3, 2019. (AMartin Meissner/AP)
February 25, 2021, 9:16 pm
Israeli researchers offer new theory on human brain evolution: We were hungry
Archaeologists suggest that as supplies of large animals declined through hunting, early Homo erectus developed the smarts needed to catch smaller, harder-to-trap prey
By Stuart Winer
Male human head louse, Pediculus humanus capitis. (Gilles San Martin, CC-BY-SA, via wikipedia)
September 25, 2018, 10:38 am
A bit player in human history, the mighty louse is important — and here to stay
From the migration of early hominids to Jewish rebels at Masada, the perfectly adapted parasite is a portal in time to shed light on even the smallest of mysteries
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Chimpanzee family. (iStock by Getty Images/ apple2499)
August 30, 2018, 8:03 am
Israeli schools largely avoid teaching evolution — report
Charles Darwin’s theory of common descent of life is marginalized and instead students are taught about species’ adaptation and genetic modification
By ToI Staff
A reconstruction of a Neanderthal man at the Neanderthal Museum in Mettmann, Germany. (Neanderthal Museum)
August 23, 2018, 6:05 am
Mom was Neanderthal: Fossil shows mix of humankind’s cousins
Skeletal fragment from half-Neanderthal, half-Denisovan young girl suggests interbreeding between human species may have been more common than previously believed
By Frank Jordans
Exhibition technician Dima Gurewitz places stuffed birds to be displayed at the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History in Tel Aviv, Israel, June 21, 2017. (Oded Balilty/AP)
June 5, 2018, 10:39 pm
Israel opening impressive new nature museum, with a discreet evolution exhibit
Housing 5.5 million specimens, it’s ticketed as the only natural history research center in the Middle East, but allows visitors to bypass areas that challenge their beliefs
By Ilan Ben Zion
Dr. Evgeny Reznitsky, educational director of the Natural History Museum in Jerusalem, standing next to a dinosaur statue in the museum's outer garden on May 1, 2018. (Michael Bachner/Times of Israel)
May 2, 2018, 6:59 am
Despite outrage, Jerusalem museum vows to keep censoring evolution exhibit
Natural History Museum justifies covering up displays during visits by ultra-Orthodox groups, as many in Israel and abroad slam institution as betraying science
By Michael Bachner
Skulls and models of humans in early stages of evolution in an exhibit at the Natural History Museum in Jerusalem, which has been blocked from view with a pink sheet, in April 2018. (Michael Bachner/Times of Israel)
April 26, 2018, 5:40 pm
Jerusalem museum censors evolution exhibit to avoid offending ultra-Orthodox
Natural History Museum ‘pushing people away’ with its blocking of display rather than bringing them together, visitor charges
By Michael Bachner
This image provided by the Sharma Center for Heritage Education, India in January 2018 shows a sample of artifacts from the Middle Palaeolithic era found at the Attirampakkam archaeological site in southern India (Kumar Akhilesh, Shanti Pappu/Sharma Center for Heritage Education, India via AP)
February 1, 2018, 4:09 am
Stone tools in India suggest earlier human exit from Africa
Following Israeli jawbone discovery, new report shows Homo sapiens may have existed in Asia as far back as 385,000 years ago — though some experts are doubtful
By AP and ToI Staff
High resolution image of 177,000 to 194,000-year-old Misliya 1 maxilla (Gerhard Weber, University of Vienna, Austria)
January 25, 2018, 9:01 pm
Jawbone fossil found in Israeli cave resets clock for modern human evolution
Dated to 170,000-200,000 years ago, bone is the earliest known record of Homo sapiens outside of Africa, and indicates long period of intermingling between human species
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
This photo taken on June 23, 2015, shows a replica of a skeleton of a Chilesaurus diegosuarezi, a bizarre genus of herbivorous dinosaur, exhibited at the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Museum in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (AFP Photo/Eitan Abramovich)
August 16, 2017, 5:53 pm
New find shakes up theory on dinosaur evolution
Researchers say Chilesaurus, the ‘most bizarre dinosaur ever found,’ is a missing link pointing at a common ancestor for theropods and ornithischians
By Marlowe HOOD
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