Princeton Study Finds That New Species Can Develop in as Little as 2 Generations
The arrival 36 years ago of a strange bird to a remote island in the Galapagos archipelago has provided direct genetic evidence of a novel…
The arrival 36 years ago of a strange bird to a remote island in the Galapagos archipelago has provided direct genetic evidence of a novel…
The most dramatic divergence between humans and other primates can be found in the brain, the primary organ that gives our species its identity. However,…
New research shows that Neanderthals survived at least 3,000 years longer than we thought in Southern Iberia long after they had died out everywhere else….
New research from the University of Edinburgh reveals that Chimpanzee brains may be more different from those of humans than was previously thought. The study…
The newly described fossils were originally recovered from a commercial quarry and belonged to tiny early primates — some half the size of a mouse….
“A way to someone’s heart is through their stomach.” New research shows that this popular saying isn’t only true for humans. In the vinegar fly…
A team of researchers has sequenced to high-quality the genome of a female Neanderthal from a bone discovered in 1980 in Vindija Cave, Croatia. The…
Researchers discover several genes whose evolution appears to have been critical to the divergence of humans from their common ancestor with chimpanzees. What makes humans…
New research reveals a genetic “switch” that changes the activity of a key skeletal gene related to height, and pinpoints a variant in the switch…
New research from Yale University and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences reveals that the largely barren islands reaching north from Antarctica are actually…
New research shows that with more time, viruses have the luxury to infect the old host while exploring adaptive tweaks to infect a new host….
New research from Harvard Medical School suggests that mutations in genetic regulatory elements may be important in both autism spectrum disorder and human evolution. Small…
Scientists investigated whether the differences in physique between Neanderthals and modern humans are genetic or caused by differences in lifestyle, finding that Neanderthals’ wide bodies…
A newly published study from Yale University reveals that the Tully Monster had gills and a notochord, which functioned as a rudimentary spinal cord. The…
A famous dinner for scientists in the 1950s supposedly served meat from a woolly mammoth that was discovered frozen in the arctic. Yale scientists obtained…
New research from Yale University reveals the first evidence that childbearing may cause accelerated aging in women. The researchers tested 100 healthy postmenopausal women from…
A new study from the Max Planck Institute reveals that the mixing of archaic human forms played an important role in shaping the immune system…
New research shows that bacteria, which reciprocally exchange amino acids, stabilize their partnership on two-dimensional surfaces and limit the access of non-cooperating bacteria to the…