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Inconsistencies With Neanderthal Genomic DNA Sequences
October 12, 2007 — The sequencing of Neanderthal nuclear DNA from fossil bone held promise for finally answering the question of whether the Neanderthals are ancestors of ours. However, two recent studies came to very ... > full story -
Environmental Setting Of Human Migrations In The Circum-Pacific Region
October 10, 2007 — This new study adds insight into the migration of anatomically modern humans out of Africa and into Asia less than 100,000 years before present. The comprehensive review of human genetic, ... > full story -
Early Apes Walked Upright 15 Million Years Earlier Than Previously Thought, Evolutionary Biologist Argues
October 9, 2007 — An extraordinary advance in human origins research reveals evidence of the emergence of the upright human body plan over 15 million years earlier than most experts have believed. More dramatically, ... > full story -
Spread Of Endogenous Retrovirus K Is Similar In The DNA Of Humans And Rhesus Monkeys
October 9, 2007 — The population dynamics of complete copies of primate endogenous retrovirus family K in the genomes of humans, chimpanzee and rhesus monkey have revealed a surprising pattern. Human ERV-K had a ... > full story -
New Insights Into The Evolution Of The Human Genome
October 8, 2007 — Researchers have created the first evolutionary history of the duplications in the human genome that are partly responsible for both disease and recent genetic innovations. This work marks a ... > full story -
New Light Shed On The 'Hobbit'
September 20, 2007 — Researchers have completed a new study on Homo floresiensis, commonly referred to as the "hobbit," a 3-foot-tall, 18,000-year-old hominin skeleton, discovered four years ago on the Indonesian island ... > full story -
Was Ability To Run Early Man's Achilles Heel?
September 11, 2007 — The earliest humans almost certainly walked upright on two legs but may have struggled to run at even half the speed of modern man, new research suggests. They proposes that if early humans lacked an ... > full story -
Extra Gene Copies Were Enough To Make Early Humans' Mouths Water
September 9, 2007 — To think that world domination could have begun in the cheeks. That's one interpretation of a recent discovery which indicates that humans carry extra copies of the salivary amylase gene. Humans have ... > full story -
Higher Social Skills Are Distinctly Human, Toddler And Ape Study Reveals
September 6, 2007 — Apes bite and try to break a tube to retrieve the food inside while children follow the experimenter's example to get inside the tube to retrieve the prize, showing that even before preschool, ... > full story -
Ancient Human DNA Extracted From Yucca Leaves Spat Out
September 5, 2007 — In a groundbreaking study, two Harvard scientists have for the first time extracted human DNA from ancient artifacts. The work potentially opens up a new universe of sources for ancient genetic ... > full story
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