The influence of an unknown population and its impact on intelligence was discovered in our DNA by researchers using a new ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

Are you lactose intolerant? Many people are. In fact, the ability to digest lactose may be an example of adaptive evolution in the human lineage. Although the study of natural selection in humans ...

However, these latest results, reported in the journal Nature Genetics, suggest a more complex story ... may have played a crucial role in human evolution," said Cousins. The study also found that ...

This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight ... The fossil record, along with studies of human and ape DNA, indicate that humans shared ...

It was the first of many fossils to reinforce the complex nature of evolution itself — the 'March of Progress' is inaccurate. A better way to think about human evolution is like a 'bushy tree ...

Before hominins intentionally chipped stone to make tools, they likely used sharp rocks already shaped by natural forces.

Languages: English. A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and ...

Through centuries of generations, evolution has helped us pass along ... People sometimes reject evolutionary theorists' findings about human nature because they do not want to believe that ...

Georgia Tech scientists are revealing how decades-long research programs have transformed our understanding of evolution, ...

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