Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled ... itself to comparative studies that offer new insights into human and ape evolution, and into what underlies the functional differences ...

The study, published in Nature, provides a deeper understanding of human and ape evolution ... and brain development. Segmental duplications in ape genomes provide a new model for understanding human ...

Other explorations of the ape reference genomes have led to unexpected findings of potential therapeutic significance. For example, the evolution ... uniquely human, such as a bigger brain." ...

In this video, I explain the difference between Hominids and Hominins, including the timeline of when hominins split from ...

Our study was the first to find the arcuate fasciculus is involved in these functions. This insight underscores the complexity of human brain evolution, suggesting that our advanced cognitive ...

A genomic study of gut microbes during antibiotic use finds selective sweeps in a DNA gyrase gene that drive resistance.

and even the evolution of the human brain. Li Haipeng, a computational biologist at the Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health and another senior author, emphasized that this discovery is just ...

The only remaining autonomous 'jumping gene' can only attach to, and stitch a copy of itself into, DNA when it builds up into large clusters and only as cells divide.

Scientists have discovered 1.5-million-year-old standardized bone tools in Tanzania, pushing back the timeline of early ...

In their latest study, published in Evolution, they found that some rattlesnakes ... "The Baja California islands are pristine and largely untouched by human activity, making them an extraordinary ...