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Neandertal's Right-Handedness Verified, Hints at Language Capacity
August 27, 2012 — There are precious few Neandertal skeletons available to science. One of the more complete was discovered in 1957 in France, roughly 900 yards away from the famous Lascaux Cave. That skeleton was ... > full story -
Most Mutations Come from Dad: New Insights Into Age, Height and Sex Reshape Views of Human Evolution
August 24, 2012 — Humans inherit more than three times as many mutations from their fathers as from their mothers, and mutation rates increase with the father's age but not the mother's, researchers have found in the ... > full story -
Human-Chimp Genetic Differences: New Insights Into Why Humans Are More Susceptible to Cancer and Other Diseases
August 23, 2012 — Ninety-six percent of a chimpanzee's genome is the same as a human's. It's the other 4 percent, and the vast differences, that has intrigued researchers. For instance, why do humans have a high risk ... > full story -
More Sophisticated Wiring, Not Just Bigger Brain, Helped Humans Evolve Beyond Chimps, Geneticists Find
August 22, 2012 — Human and chimp brains look anatomically similar because both evolved from the same ancestor millions of years ago. But where does the chimp brain end and the human brain begin? A new study pinpoints ... > full story -
Time With Parents Is Important for Teens' Well-Being
August 21, 2012 — Teenagers are famous for seeking independence from their parents, but research shows that many teens continue to spend time with their parents and that this shared time is important for teens' ... > full story -
Dawn of Humanity Illuminated – 50 Years After the Leakeys
August 21, 2012 — The first systematic, multidisciplinary results to come out of research conducted on the edge of the Serengeti at the rich palaeoanthropological site in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania since that ... > full story -
Evolutionary Increase in Size of the Human Brain Explained: Part of a Protein Linked to Rapid Change in Cognitive Ability
August 16, 2012 — Researchers have found what they believe is the key to understanding why the human brain is larger and more complex than that of other animals. The human brain, with its unequaled cognitive capacity, ... > full story -
A GPS in Your DNA
August 16, 2012 — Scientists have devised a method for more precisely determining the geographical location of a person's ancestral origins based on a model of genetic traits for every coordinate on the globe. He says ... > full story -
Research Raises Doubts About Whether Modern Humans and Neanderthals Interbred
August 13, 2012 — New research raises questions about the theory that modern humans and Neanderthals at some point interbred, known as hybridization. The findings suggest that common ancestry, not hybridization, ... > full story -
'Selfish' DNA in Animal Mitochondria Offers Possible Tool to Study Aging
August 10, 2012 — Researchers have discovered, for the first time in any animal species, a type of "selfish" mitochondrial DNA that is actually hurting the organism and lessening its chance to survive – and ... > full story
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