WASHINGTON >> Bipedal locomotion — walking upright on two legs — is a fundamental trait underpinning humankind’s success. Scientists have now identified two innovations that occurred long ago in the ...
A gene called ADSL, which helps synthesize DNA, differs between modern humans and our extinct human relatives. The findings could shed light on why Neanderthals vanished. When you purchase through ...
A team of genetics researchers has sequenced the genomes of Greenland sled dogs, or qimmeq (plural qimmit), both living and dead. Their results shed light on both the development of this breed and ...
May 14 (UPI) --New research sheds light on how chimpanzees self-medicate wounds with plants and provide aid to other chimps. A new report published Tuesday in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and ...
A newly discovered genetic mutation unique to humans may help explain why we are significantly more vulnerable to cancer than our closest evolutionary relatives. Researchers at the University of ...
The size and structure of our brains go a long way to explaining what makes us human. But what caused our brains to become what they are? KPBS Sci-Tech Reporter Thomas Fudge spoke to UC San Diego ...
(CNN) — Modern humans are evolutionary survivors, thriving generation after generation while our ancient relatives died out. Now, new research into our brain chemistry suggests that an enzyme unique ...
Prof Matyas Liptovszky is a director of Wilder International, and in a voluntary capacity affiliated with the European Association of Zoos and Aquariums. Great apes are humans’ closest relatives in ...
A protein that helps synthesize DNA is different in modern humans than it is in Neanderthals and Denisovans — our closest extinct relatives — and new experiments in mice genetically modified to ...
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