Yeast is already a familiar ingredient to bakers and winemakers, but new research from the University of Georgia suggests it ...

Have you ever looked into the mirror and wondered just how deeply your roots stretch back in the tree of life? It might ...

However, the identity of the early human species it once belonged to remained unclear at the time. The researchers relied on molecular analysis to draw their conclusion as they were unable to ...

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.

Radiation and Rapid Evolution | The Wolves of Chernobyl Reveal Human Potential Scientists discovered something impossible in Chernobyl's radioactive ruins - life is thriving where nothing should ...

Segmental duplications are important because they underlie several human diseases and have been key to shaping the evolution of great apes. For example, human-specific copy-number increases of ...

After more than two decades of work, researchers have achieved a genetics milestone: they have successfully sequenced the complete genomes of six ape species, a feat that seemed impossible just a ...

KUNMING, April 6 (Xinhua) -- Researchers have uncovered the first definitive evidence of Middle Paleolithic Quina technology in East Asia, shedding new light on the evolution of the region's early ...

Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences has officially voted to change the name of the Human Evolutionary Biology concentration during a meeting on April 1. Effective as of July 1, 2025 — when the ...

A recent study from Cambridge University has revealed new insights into human evolution, casting doubt on the long-standing belief about the origins of Homo sapiens. According to the research, ...

Now, consider how this analogy applies to human beings. Like smart devices, humans can be seen as comprising three essential parts: the body (hardware), the mind (software), and the spirit (power ...

The discovery of bone implements that are the oldest ever found, by far, casts light on human evolution. It shows that our hominin ancestors were able to think about and make this technology a lot ...