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Refugees from the Ice Age: How Was Europe Repopulated?
May 8, 2012 — Scientists have used DNA analysis to gain important new insights into how human beings repopulated Europe as the Ice Age relaxed its ... > full story -
Scientists Show How a Gene Duplication Helped Our Brains Become 'Human'
May 3, 2012 — Scientists have shown that an extra copy of a brain-development gene, which appeared in our ancestors’ genomes about 2.4 million years ago, allowed maturing neurons to migrate farther and ... > full storyMore: -
Shedding Light on Southpaws: Sports Data Help Confirm Theory Explaining Left-Handed Minority in General Population
April 25, 2012 — Lefties (only ten percent of the general population) have always been a bit of a puzzle. Researchers have now developed a mathematical model that shows the low percentage of lefties is a result of ... > full story -
Forensic Science Used to Determine Who's Who in Pre-Columbian Peru
April 22, 2012 — Analysis of ancient mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has been used to establish migration and population patterns for American indigenous cultures during the time before Christopher Columbus sailed to the ... > full story -
Polar Bears Evolutionarily Five Times Older and Genetically More Distinct: Ancestry Traced Back 600,000 Years
April 20, 2012 — Polar bears evolved as early as some 600,000 years ago, according to a new study. Scientists show the largest arctic carnivore to be five times older than previously thought. The new findings on the ... > full story -
Chimpanzee Ground Nests Offer New Insight Into Our Ancestors' Descent from the Trees
April 16, 2012 — The first study into rarely documented ground-nest building by wild chimpanzees offers new clues about the ancient transition of early hominins from sleeping in trees to sleeping on the ground. While ... > full story -
Why Are Action Stars More Likely to Be Republican?
April 10, 2012 — Study explores how men's mental faculties continue to respond to their physical strength and fighting ... > full story -
Evidence That Human Ancestors Used Fire One Million Years Ago
April 2, 2012 — Scientists have identified the earliest known evidence of the use of fire by human ancestors. Microscopic traces of wood ash, alongside animal bones and stone tools, were found in a layer dated to ... > full story -
The Viking Journey of Mice and Men
March 19, 2012 — House mice happily live wherever there are humans. When populations of humans migrate the mice often travel with them. New research has used evolutionary techniques on modern day and ancestral mouse ... > full story -
Was Human Evolution Caused by Climate Change?
March 15, 2012 — Models of how animal and plant distributions are affected by climate change may also explain aspects of human ... > full story
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