One of the parallels between archaeology and evolutionary biology is that the most ordinary-looking objects can sometimes be the most revealing. An ancient ornament of unrivalled artistry might reveal ...
A billion years ago, a single-celled eukaryote engulfed a cyanobacterium – an organism capable of converting the sun's energy into food in the form of carbohydrates. In one of the single most pivotal ...
A billion years ago, a single-celled eukaryote engulfed a cyanobacterium--an organism capable of converting the sun's energy into food in the form of carbohydrates. In one of the single most pivotal ...
But two teams have now independently found the first examples of plants whose plastids seem to lack a genome, including a giant rot-scented flower and a group of single-celled algae. Neither case is ...