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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 -
Genes Associated With Schizophrenia Evolved Rapidly Due To Selection During Human Evolution
September 4, 2007 — Several genes with strong associations to schizophrenia have evolved rapidly due to selection during human evolution, according to new research. Researchers found a higher prevalence of the influence ... > full story -
In Matters Of Sex And Death, Men Are An Essential Part Of The Equation
August 29, 2007 — The standard practice of tracking only female life histories leads to mistaken conclusions about the forces that shape human evolution, according to a new article. The reason is that men's and ... > full story -
Ethiopian Plateau Formation Coincided With Climate Change That May Have Spurred Human Evolution
August 28, 2007 — More than three million years ago, early hominins evolved the ability to walk upright and in doing so started us along the evolutionary path that eventually gave rise to Homo sapiens. It was Darwin ... > full story -
DNA Provides Clues To Outcome In Patients With Liver Cancer
August 23, 2007 — The main causes of liver cancer, which is the fifth most common cancer in the world, are well defined. However, the molecular pathways activated by the triggers of liver cancer are not well ... > full story -
All Eukaryotic Kinases Share One Common Set Of Substrates
August 22, 2007 — A team of researchers has established that all eukaryotic kinases share a common set of substrates, nine amino acid segments shared by all proteins that are known to be ... > full story -
Handsome By Chance: Why Humans Look Different From Neanderthals
August 13, 2007 — Chance, not natural selection, best explains why the modern human skull looks so different from that of its Neanderthal relative. The scientists concluded that Neanderthals did not develop their ... > full story -
Facial Attraction: Choice Of Sexual Partner Shaped The Human Face
August 13, 2007 — Men with large jaws, flaring cheeks and large eyebrows are sexy, at least in the eyes of our ancestors, researchers at the Natural History Museum have discovered. Facial attractiveness played a major ... > full story -
New Kenyan Fossils Challenge Established Views On Early Evolution Of Our Genus Homo
August 13, 2007 — Two new fossils cast fresh light on a little understood and important period of human prehistory at the dawn of our own genus, Homo. One of the two fossils, an upper jaw bone of Homo habilis (KNM-ER ... > full story -
Early Modern Human Skull Includes Surprising Neanderthal Feature
August 7, 2007 — In 1942, a human braincase was found in Romania during phosphate mining. The skull's geological age has remained uncertain. Now, new radiocarbon analysis directly dates the skull to approximately ... > full story
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