Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution ...
New research on primate social structures and brain anatomy is offering deeper insights into the evolutionary pathways of humans. Studies on baboons, macaques, and chimpanzees reveal complex social ...
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Evolution by natural selection has still been shaping the human species over the last 10,000 years: Here's how
When our distant ancestors first traded nomadic life for farming, villages, and permanent homes, you might assume that the ...
This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...
A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...
On Valentine’s Day in 2018, a team of scientists walked across a flat expanse in the badlands of northeastern Ethiopia, scanning the ground for fossils. An eagle-eyed field assistant, Omar Abdulla, ...
A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations throughout their evolution. Ana Mateos and Jesús Rodríguez, scientists at the ...
New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...
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Estrogen in both the male and female brain shapes responses to trauma, study suggests
Traumatic experiences can cause memory problems, and estrogen may be a key factor that shapes the brain's resilience against ...
Share on Pinterest Human brain cell evolution may be linked to autism, neurodiversity, according to a new study. Image credit: Lauren Lee/Stocksy A new study concludes that the speed at which the ...
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