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'Benign' Malaria Key Driver of Human Evolution in Asia-Pacific
September 4, 2012 — The malaria species rampant in the Asia-Pacific region has been a significant driver of evolution of the human genome, a new study has shown. An international team of researchers has shown that ... > full story -
Ancient Denisovan Genome: Relationships Between Denisovans and Present-Day Humans Revealed
August 30, 2012 — Researchers have described the Denisovan genome, illuminating the relationships between Denisovans and present-day ... > full story -
Neandertal's Right-Handedness Verified, Hints at Language Capacity
August 27, 2012 — There are precious few Neandertal skeletons available to science. One of the more complete was discovered in 1957 in France, roughly 900 yards away from the famous Lascaux Cave. That skeleton was ... > full story -
Most Mutations Come from Dad: New Insights Into Age, Height and Sex Reshape Views of Human Evolution
August 24, 2012 — Humans inherit more than three times as many mutations from their fathers as from their mothers, and mutation rates increase with the father's age but not the mother's, researchers have found in the ... > full story -
Human-Chimp Genetic Differences: New Insights Into Why Humans Are More Susceptible to Cancer and Other Diseases
August 23, 2012 — Ninety-six percent of a chimpanzee's genome is the same as a human's. It's the other 4 percent, and the vast differences, that has intrigued researchers. For instance, why do humans have a high risk ... > full story -
More Sophisticated Wiring, Not Just Bigger Brain, Helped Humans Evolve Beyond Chimps, Geneticists Find
August 22, 2012 — Human and chimp brains look anatomically similar because both evolved from the same ancestor millions of years ago. But where does the chimp brain end and the human brain begin? A new study pinpoints ... > full story -
Sanctuary Chimps Show High Rates of Drug-Resistant Staph
August 21, 2012 — Chimpanzees from African sanctuaries carry drug-resistant, human-associated strains of the bacteria Staphlyococcus aureus, a pathogen the infected chimpanzees could spread to endangered wild ape ... > full story -
Dawn of Humanity Illuminated – 50 Years After the Leakeys
August 21, 2012 — The first systematic, multidisciplinary results to come out of research conducted on the edge of the Serengeti at the rich palaeoanthropological site in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania since that ... > full story -
Iconic Darwin Finch Genome Sequenced
August 17, 2012 — Scientists have sequenced the genome of one of the iconic Galapagos finches first described by Charles Darwin. he genome of the medium ground finch (Geospiza fortis) is among the first of a planned ... > full story -
Evolutionary Increase in Size of the Human Brain Explained: Part of a Protein Linked to Rapid Change in Cognitive Ability
August 16, 2012 — Researchers have found what they believe is the key to understanding why the human brain is larger and more complex than that of other animals. The human brain, with its unequaled cognitive capacity, ... > full story
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