In a remarkable scientific breakthrough, researchers at Rockefeller University have inserted a human-specific gene into mice, ...

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 ...

Humans need a delicate balance of amino acids to maintain their overall health. Researchers caution that moving from mice to human applications will require careful fine-tuning and perhaps new ...

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 ...

Fossils like those from Xujiayao exhibit traits that don’t fit with modern humans, Neanderthals, or Denisovans, hinting at a unique evolutionary lineage in East Asia. Anthropologist John Hawks ...