Human Evolution

New drug is born that uses evolutionary theory to fight cancer and pandemics | Health and Wellness

If God were a 19th century physicist he would not play dice, but as a biologist he would always be…

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Jeremy DeSilva, anthropologist: “Empathy and compassion compensated for the physical limitations of a bipedal creature” | Science

Over the course of a lifetime, the average person takes about 150 million steps. Enough to circle the Earth three…

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More Mysterious Than Neanderthals, Denisovans Hold Key to Humanity | Science

The origins of humanity can be described as a long history of hybridizations and migrations. The more data we have…

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Genetics Predicts the End of Neanderthals: They Didn’t Die Out, We Assimilated Them | Science

In 2010, a Swedish geneticist who had spent his youth obsessed with reconstructing the genetic material of an Egyptian mummy…

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Humans and climate change have driven the woolly rhinoceros to extinction | The science

It was what the military calls an enveloping maneuver. After 2.5 million years of living throughout Eurasia, including the Iberian…

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The technological explosion that occurred 600,000 years ago determined the origin of the abilities that made us human | The science

If you look around, you are surrounded by technologies that you probably don't know how they work, and if you…

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Earth’s protective sky is at least 3.7 billion years old | The science

In the southwest of Greenland, surrounded by ancient ice, lies the belt of green cliffs of Isua. It is the…

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Relics of an Ancient Virus Embedded in DNA Control Embryo Development | The science

Every human being begins with a single cell—a fertilized egg—and eventually becomes an impressive being made up of some 30…

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