Human Evolution News

Posted June 28, 2010:

• 'Copy and Paste DNA' More Common Than Previously Thought

Posted June 24, 2010:

• More Variation in Human Genome Than Expected: Surprisingly Common Transposons or 'Jumping Genes' Are Known to Cause Disease

Posted June 23, 2010:

• Separation Between Neanderthal and Homo Sapiens Might Have Occurred 500,000 Years Earlier, DNA from Teeth Suggests

Posted June 22, 2010:

• Sequencing of the Human Body Louse Genome: Important Step Toward Control of Disease-Vector Insect
• Humans Have a Mighty Bite, New Research Shows

Posted June 21, 2010:

• 3.6 Million-Year-Old Relative of 'Lucy' Discovered: Early Hominid Skeleton Confirms Human-Like Walking Is Ancient
• Of Lice and Man: Researchers Sequence Human Body Louse Genome

Posted June 16, 2010:

• New World Helicobacter Pylori Genome Sequenced, Dynamics of Inflammation-Related Genes Revealed

Posted June 7, 2010:

• Ancient Viral Invasion Shaped Human Genome

Posted June 1, 2010:

• Microbe Power as a Green Means to Hydrogen Production

Posted May 26, 2010:

• DNA Analyses Return 13 Haitian Children to Families: DNA-Prokids Bolivia

Posted May 13, 2010:

• Low Oxygen Levels Prevent X Chromosome Inactivation in Human Embryonic Stem Cells

Posted May 12, 2010:

• The Joke Is on Us: A New Interpretation of Bared Teeth in Archaeological Artifacts
• Duties to Human Remains in Universities and Museums

Posted May 6, 2010:

• Neandertals 'Hardly Differed at All' from Modern Humans
• Complete Neanderthal Genome Sequenced: DNA Signatures Found in Present-Day Europeans and Asians, but Not in Africans
• Neandertal Genome Sequence Published in Science
• Neanderthal Genome Yields Insights Into Human Evolution and Evidence of Interbreeding With Modern Humans

Posted April 29, 2010:

• Jumping Elements Can Become Incorporated in Genome at Different Stages of Development

Posted April 22, 2010:

• Simplifying Complexity – New Insights Into How Genomes Work

Posted April 20, 2010:

• New Methods Identify Thousands of New DNA Sequences Missing from the Human Genome Reference Map

Posted April 19, 2010:

• Chinese Pigs 'Direct Descendants' of First Domesticated Breeds
• A Biotherapy Strategy for Esophageal Cancer in the Future

Posted April 8, 2010:

• New Hominid Shares Traits With Homo Species: Fossil Find Sheds Light on the Transition to Homo Genus from Earlier Hominids

Posted April 1, 2010:

• Stone Age Scandinavians Unable to Digest Milk, Study Shows

Posted March 31, 2010:

• A Genomic Achievement That's for the Birds -- And for Humans

Posted March 25, 2010:

• New Insights Into the 3-D Organization of the Human Genome
• New Human Species Discovered: Mitochondrial Genome of Previously Unknown Hominins from Siberia Decoded

Posted March 19, 2010:

• Evidence Indicates Humans' Early Tree-Dwelling Ancestors Were Also Bipedal

Posted March 15, 2010:

• When Did the First 'Modern' Human Beings Appear in the Iberian Peninsula?

Posted March 8, 2010:

• Deceptive Model: Stem Cells of Humans and Mice Differ More Strongly Than Suspected

Posted March 3, 2010:

• Strategic Research Program Needed to Determine Whether, How Past Climate Influenced Human Evolution

Posted March 2, 2010:

• Modern Man Found to Be Generally Monogamous, Moderately Polygamous
• Genetic Footprint of Natural Selection

Posted March 1, 2010:

• If Bonobo Kanzi Can Point as Humans Do, What Other Similarities Can Rearing Reveal?

Posted February 27, 2010:

• DNA Sequence of Extinct Ancient Cattle Uncovered
• 'Pompeii-Like' Excavations Tell Us More About Toba Super-Eruption

Posted February 22, 2010:

• DNA Evidence Tells 'Global Story' of Human History

Posted February 21, 2010:

• Cultural History Colors Thought About Bioethics, Evolution

Posted February 10, 2010:

• Waking the Dead: Scientists Reconstruct Nuclear Genome of Extinct Human Being

Posted February 5, 2010:

• Did Bacteria Develop Into More Complex Cells Much Earlier in Evolution Than Thought?

Posted February 1, 2010:

• 'Peter Pan' Apes Never Seem to Learn Selfishness

Posted January 28, 2010:

• Developmental Delay May Explain Behavior of Easygoing Bonobo Apes

Posted January 27, 2010:

• Barefoot Running: How Humans Ran Comfortably and Safely Before the Invention of Shoes

Posted January 26, 2010:

• Is the Hobbit's Brain Unfeasibly Small?

Posted January 13, 2010:

• Chimp and Human Y Chromosomes Evolving Faster Than Expected

Posted January 11, 2010:

• Use of Body Ornamentation Shows Neanderthal Mind Capable of Advanced Thought

Posted January 7, 2010:

• Evolution's Footprints in Human Genome Precisely Tracked Using New Approach
• 30,000-Year-Old Child's Teeth Shed New Light on Human Evolution

Posted December 28, 2009:

• First Molars Provide Insight Into Evolution of Great Apes, Humans

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