Over the last 20 years, genetic research has changed dramatically. An explosion of genomic data has reshaped how we ...

New research has revealed an incredible discovery: modern humans carry 20% of their genetic material from a mysterious ...

Understanding human evolution often involves looking closely at our DNA. Yet obtaining ancient DNA from fossils older than 300,000 years—especially from Africa—is incredibly challenging.

However, the adaptive value, mechanistic diversity, and evolution of epigenome-targeted DNA repair systems across the tree of life remain unresolved ... we queried for the PWWP domain of the human ...

Primates have evolved over 65 million years, from early ancestors to over 300 species today—including us. This is the incredible story of our ancient origins. Senate Democratic leader Jason ...

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The results, published this week in Nature magazine by an international team of 123 researchers, help deepen people's understanding of human evolution and protect endangered ape populations.

The resource is already lending itself to comparative studies that offer new insights into human and ape evolution ... kin on the primate ancestral tree, diverged about 10.6 to 10.9 million ...

The human face is markedly different from that of our fossil relatives and ancestors, most notably, it is smaller and more gracile. However, the reasons for this evolutionary shift are still not fully ...

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In this study, we generated 100 new sequences and co-analyzed 140 sequences of C2a-M48-SK1061 to reconstruct a highly revised phylogenetic tree with age estimates ... evidence for understanding the ...

New Caledonia was also the source for another very currently visible commodity. It is the home for Araucaria columnaris or Cook pine, the tall tapering tree grown as the Christmas tree in ...