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A Relative from the Tianyuan Cave: Humans Living 40,000 Years Ago Likely Related to Many Present-Day Asians and Native Americans
January 21, 2013 Ancient DNA has revealed that humans living some 40,000 years ago in the area near Beijing were likely related to many present-day Asians and Native ... > full story -
Learning the Alphabet of Gene Control
January 17, 2013 Scientists have made a large step towards the understanding of how human genes are regulated. They have now identified the DNA sequences that bind to over four hundred proteins that control ... > full story -
Earliest Sea Cow Ancestors Originated in Africa, Lived in Fresh Water
January 16, 2013 A new fossil discovered in Tunisia represents the oldest known ancestor of modern-day sea cows, supporting the African origins of these marine ... > full story -
A History Lesson from Genes: Using DNA to Tell Us How Populations Change
January 9, 2013 Researchers have developed a software model that can infer population history from modern ... > full story -
Time Pressure Enhances Thrill of Auctions
January 3, 2013 Shopping is more than the rational exchange of goods against money. Emotions, however, do not only play a role when buying a red sports car or the fiftieth pair of shoes. At the stock exchange or ... > full story -
Did Lucy Walk on the Ground or Stay in the Trees?
December 31, 2012 Researchers have investigated tree-climbing behavior of modern hunter-gatherers to elucidate our fossil ancestors' terrestrial versus arboreal ... > full story -
Fluctuating Environment May Have Driven Human Evolution
December 26, 2012 A series of rapid environmental changes in East Africa roughly 2 million years ago may be responsible for driving human evolution, according to researchers at Penn State and Rutgers ... > full story -
Fine Hands, Fists of Fury: Our Hands Evolved for Punching, Not Just Dexterity
December 19, 2012 Men whacked punching bags for a new study that suggests human hands evolved not only for the manual dexterity needed to use tools, play a violin or paint a work of art, but so men could make fists ... > full storyMore: -
Genomic Frontier -- The Unexplored Animal Kingdom: Genomes of Limpet, Leech and Worm Put Spotlight on Lophotrochozoans
December 19, 2012 A new report unveils three of the first genomes from a vast, understudied swath of the animal kingdom that includes as many as one-quarter of Earth's marine species. By publishing the genomes of a ... > full storyMore: -
Tracking the Origins of HIV
December 18, 2012 Human immunodeficiency virus may have affected humans for much longer than is currently believed. Researchers now think that the genomes of an isolated West African human population provide important ... > full story
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