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Lungfish Provides Insight to Life on Land: 'Humans Are Just Modified Fish'
October 4, 2011 — A study into the muscle development of several different fish has given insights into the genetic leap that set the scene for the evolution of hind legs in terrestrial animals. This innovation gave ... > full story -
Structure of a Molecular Copy Machine: How Mitochondrial Genes Are Transcribed
September 26, 2011 — Mitochondria are compartments within cells and have their own DNA. The key protein required for the expression of the genetic information in this DNA is the mitochondrial RNA polymerase enzyme. Its ... > full story -
Evolutionary Tree of Life for Mammals Greatly Improved
September 22, 2011 — Biologists have released a large and robust DNA matrix that has representation for all mammalian families. The matrix -- the culmination of about five years of painstaking research -- has ... > full story -
Aboriginal Australians: The First Explorers
September 22, 2011 — In an exciting development, researchers have, for the first time, pieced together the human genome from an Aboriginal Australian. The results re-interpret the prehistory of our ... > full storyMore: -
Asia Was Settled in Multiple Waves of Migration, DNA Study Suggests
September 22, 2011 — Researchers studying DNA patterns from modern and archaic humans has found that the Denisovans, a recently discovered hominin group, contributed genes to several populations in Asia and that modern ... > full storyMore: -
Using Human Genomes to Illuminate the Mysteries of Early Human History
September 21, 2011 — Researchers are utilizing the complete genome sequences of people alive today to shed light on events at the dawn of human history, such as the times of divergence of early human populations and of ... > full story -
Climatic Fluctuations Drove Key Events in Human Evolution, Researchers Find
September 21, 2011 — Researchers have found that periods of rapid fluctuation in temperature coincided with the emergence of the first distant relatives of human beings and the appearance and spread of stone ... > full story -
Human-Chimp Evolutionary Divergence: Methylation and Gene Sequence Co-Evolved, Study Suggests
September 15, 2011 — Scientists published the first quantitative evidence supporting the notion that genome-wide "bookmarking" of DNA with methyl molecules -- a process called methylation -- and underlying DNA sequences ... > full story -
Researchers Analyze the Evolving Human Relationship With Fire
September 14, 2011 — Humanity's relationship to fire -- including wildfires, burning of fossil fuels, controlled burns and human-caused fire -- is the focus of a report by an international team of ... > full storyMore: -
Australopithecus Sediba Paved the Way for Homo Species, New Studies Suggest
September 8, 2011 — Researchers have revealed new details about the brain, pelvis, hands and feet of Australopithecus sediba, a primitive hominin that existed around the same time early Homo species first began to ... > full storyMore:- New Evidence Suggests That Au. Sediba Is the Best Candidate for the Genus Homo
- Human Brain Evolution, New Insight Through X-Rays: Experiment Reveals Brain Shape of an Early Human Ancestor
- Sediba Hominid Skull Hints at Later Brain Evolution
- Handier Than Homo Habilis? Versatile Hand of Australopithecus Sediba Makes a Better Candidate for an Early Tool-Making Hominin
- Fossil Discovery Supports Evolutionary Link Between Australopiths and Homo
- Fossil Discovery Could Be Our Oldest Human Ancestor
- Direct Ancestor of Homo Genus? Fossils Show Human-Like Hand, Brain and Pelvis in Early Hominin
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