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The next phase of human evolution is already underway
A glass of milk can still mark a line through humanity. For most adults, drinking it brings discomfort because the body ...
A new study shows the virus could have doubled the frequency of genetic variants in a South African province if effective ...
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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 ...
Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...
The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...
The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...
Scientists in Ethiopia unearthed pieces of 2.65 million-year-old fossilized teeth belonging to two members of a newly discovered Homo species that could challenge previously accepted understandings of ...
Long before humans spread across the globe, a deadly disease may have quietly shaped where our ancestors lived—and even how we evolved. New research reveals that malaria didn’t just threaten early ...
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, ...
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