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Evolution During Human Colonizations: Selective Advantage of Being There First
November 3, 2011 — The first individuals settling on new land are more successful at passing on their genes than those who did not migrate, according to new ... > full story -
Shared Genes With Neanderthal Relatives: Modern East Asians Share Genetic Material With Prehistoric Denisovans
October 31, 2011 — During human evolution our ancestors mated with Neanderthals, but also with other related hominids. Researchers have now shown that people in East Asia share genetic material with Denisovans, who got ... > full story -
Blame Backbone Fractures on Evolution, Not Osteoporosis: Adaptation to Upright Walking Leaves Humans Susceptible
October 19, 2011 — Osteoporosis is blamed for backbone fractures. The real culprit could well be our own vertebrae, which evolved to absorb the pounding of upright walking, researchers ... > full story -
Young Human-Specific Genes Correlated With Brain Evolution
October 19, 2011 — Young genes that appeared since the primate branch split from other mammal species are expressed in unique structures of the developing human brain, a new analysis ... > full story -
Archaeologists Find Blade 'Production Lines' Existed as Much as 400,000 Years Ago
October 17, 2011 — Archaeologists report that large numbers of long, slender cutting tools were discovered at the Qesem Cave outside Tel Aviv. They report that every element of the system points to a sophisticated tool ... > full story -
Preventing Dangerous Nonsense in Human Gene Expression
October 13, 2011 — Human genes are preferentially encoded by codons that are less likely to be mistranscribed (or "misread") into a STOP codon, according to a new ... > full story -
Children, Not Chimps, Prefer Collaboration: Humans Like to Work Together in Solving Tasks -- Chimps Don't
October 13, 2011 — Recent studies have shown that chimpanzees possess many of the cognitive prerequisites necessary for humanlike collaboration. Cognitive abilities, however, might not be all that differs between ... > full storyMore: -
Researchers Reconstruct Genome of the Black Death; Bacteria Found to Be Ancestor of All Modern Plagues
October 12, 2011 — An international team has sequenced the entire genome of the Black Death, one of the most devastating epidemics in human ... > full story -
Sexual Selection by Sugar Molecule Helped Determine Human Origins, Researchers Say
October 10, 2011 — Researchers say that losing the ability to make a particular kind of sugar molecule boosted disease protection in early hominids, and may have directed the evolutionary emergence of our ancestors, ... > full story -
Length of Flanking Repeat Region and Timing Affect Genetic Material
October 6, 2011 — Scientists studied the deletions of genetic material in 131 patients with a genomic disorder called Smith-Magenis syndrome and the duplication of genetic material in 79 patients with Potocki-Lupski ... > full story
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