A recent groundbreaking study has radically altered our understanding of human evolution. Homo sapiens, traditionally thought ...

Researchers have used distinct markers from human subpopulations to trace back to our common African root in a giant human "tree ... Eurasia contributed to the evolution of anatomically modern ...

The experiment did not test men's perceptions of female scents, but the results certainly suggest that evolution has provided humans, not just mice, with a transmitter and receiver for genetic ...

a protein believed to have been involved in beneficial gene loss during recent human evolution. In terms of behavior, the humanized NOVA1 mice pups were observed to vocalize differently than the ...

Humans surprisingly share a significant portion of their DNA with diverse life forms, from chimpanzees (98.8%) and bonobos ...

These creatures, ranging from massive gorillas to tiny mouse lemurs ... of their evolutionary history. That picture (below) comes in the form of a “timetree”—a phylogenetic tree that ...

These findings provide key mechanistic insights into the neural patterning process governing human and mouse hypothalamus ... lineage tree, and identifies four adaptive evolutionary divergences ...