Feature Scientists are finding ever-earlier examples of artistic expression in the archaeological record that reshape what we know about the cognitive abilities of our archaic human relatives ...

Human populations that left Africa evolved quickly whereas Neanderthals stayed the same, according to an analysis of blood group systems. Twins are pretty rare, accounting for just 3% of births in ...

Figure 1: Homo floresiensis in the context of the evolution and dispersal of the genus Homo. Could LB1 be a pygmy H. sapiens? Again, no. Compared with a human skull scaled to less than a third of ...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

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To get a sense of when this diversity cropped up during human evolution, the researchers also compared the DNA of modern humans to that of a Neanderthal individual and of a Denisovan, another ...

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But in human and other mammalian cells, all previously reported versions of CAST have struggled with low efficiency. To overcome these barriers, Liu and Sternberg turned to directed evolution ...

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The work was published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution this week. The study challenges assumptions about non-human animals’ ability to provide altruistic care, write the authors.

ALTOONA, Pa. (WTAJ) — As Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to grow, the question of “Will human-made art be affected?” seems to be looming in the back of local artists’ minds. Hollidaysburg ...

Humans likely breed for these features because they most closely resemble those of human infants and trigger parental instincts. Cats or dogs? Dogs or cats? Whether you’re a feline fanatic or ...