Studying chimpanzees to illuminate how speech evolved in humans

Studying chimpanzees illuminates how speech evolved in humans

Giovanni Anzalone | 
Scientists compared parts of the brain that correlate to speech in humans and primates to understand how speech evolved in ...
Humans and whales are the only animals to go through menopause. What can this tell us about aging and fertility?

Humans and whales are the only animals to go through menopause. What can this tell us about aging and fertility?

Just five species of whales with teeth are the only others known to have females that regularly live long after ...
Preserved human brains: 4400 date back nearly 12,000 years

Preserved human brains: 4,400 date back nearly 12,000 years

Gary Manners | 
A recent study has demonstrated that human brains can survive the test of time far better than previously believed ...
Extraterrestrial musings: Does Jupiter’s ice-coated bright moon Europa host life?

Extraterrestrial musings: Does Jupiter’s ice-coated moon Europa host life?

Stephen Ornes | 
Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon, Europa, has captivated planetary scientists interested in the geophysics of alien worlds ...
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Life’s purpose: Yale psychiatrist explores how evolution could influence the meaning of life

Bill Hathaway, Samuel Wilkinson | 
Samuel Wilkinson discusses evolutionary forces that spur us to be altruistic and what inspired his fascination with life’s purpose ...
When did our human ancestors arrive in Europe? 1.4-million-year-old artifacts made by hominids track their migration

When did our human ancestors arrive in Europe? 1.4-million-year-old artifacts made by hominids track their migration

Carolyn Johnson | 
An artifact-rich archaeological site in western Ukraine may be the oldest spot in Europe to contain evidence of early humans ...
Hairy questions: As scientists edge closer to resurrecting mammoths, a host of ethical and scientific issues arise

Hairy questions: As scientists edge closer to resurrecting mammoths, a host of ethical and scientific issues arise

Dino Grandoni | 
Colossal Biosciences, a biotechnology company based in Dallas, announced [March 6] that it has produced a line of Asian elephant ...
Why did humans lose their tails?

Why did humans lose their tails?

Gregory Williams | 
A genetic change in our ancient ancestors may partly explain why humans don’t have tails like monkeys, finds a new ...
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Podcast: Evolution of altruism — If evolution favors the survival of the fittest, how did humans gain compassion and empathy?

Janna Levin | 
Altruism Evolution: If evolution favors the survival of the fittest, where did the impulse to help others come from? ...
Infections and intelligence: What was the evolutionary spark that led to the rapid evolution of human brains?

Infections and intelligence: A virus could have been evolutionary spark that led to rapid evolution of human brains

Nathan Falde | 
A new study has unraveled a mystery that is key to understanding the course of human and animal evolution ...
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Viewpoint: Does Donald Trump’s authoritarian style and his popularity among ultra-conservative religious leaders echo the rise of Hitler’s Nazi Germany?

Meghan Garrity, Melissa Wilde | 
Each September marks the anniversary of Nazi Germany’s Nuremberg Laws, whose passage in 1935 stripped Jews of their German citizenship and ...
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When in our evolutionary history did we become ‘human’?

Nick Longrich | 
We now know from evolutionary science that humanity has existed in some form or another for around 2 million years ...
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Did Neanderthals create art? Engraved bone raises questions about human ancestor creativity

Tom Metcalfe | 
Examples of artistic expression in the archaeological record that reshape what we know about the cognitive abilities of Neanderthals ...
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‘Deleting Darwinism’: Influential Indian nationalist calls for rejection of evolution, turns towards Hindu creationism

Aravindan Neelakandan | 
Magazine Organiser carried article arguing in favour of the ‘logic of deleting Darwinism’ and ‘Intelligent Design' ...
Looking back at the ancient Greek and Roman aging experience to understand the origins of Alzheimer’s

Looking back at ancient Greek and Roman aging experiences to understand origins of Alzheimer’s

Leigh Hopper | 
Medical texts from 2,500 years ago suggesting today’s widespread dementia stems from modern environments and lifestyles ...
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Is technology-driven ‘exponential change’ overwhelming humanity’s genetically-inherited ability to adapt?

Adam Frank | 
Human civilization has always survived periods of change. Will our rapidly evolving technological era be an exception to the rule? ...
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Is tilapia a human-made freak that we should avoid — or an evolutionary rockstar?

Ricki Lewis | 
Posts were appearing on my Facebook feed warning against the dangers of eating tilapia. So I decided to do a ...
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What do high-altitude Andean communities and deep-sea fish have in common? Genetic mutations that aid survival in low-oxygen environments

Jennifer Zieba | 
Researchers discovered an example of convergent evolution in the Peruvian and Tibetan highlander communities ...
Pinning down our ‘great leap forward’: When did ancient humans start to act behaviorally modern?

Pinning down our ‘great leap forward’: When did ancient humans start to act behaviorally modern?

Cody Cottier | 
How are we different from ancient humans? Since our species first appeared, we’ve been on a wild ride from the ...
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How did human ancestors go from walking on all fours to standing on two legs? Ancient eardrum fossils illuminate the likely evolutionary path

James Devitt | 
How did humans learn to walk? The inner ear of a 6-million-year-old fossil ape reveals clues about the evolution of ...
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God question: Did Neanderthals practice religion or have ‘rich symbolic lives’?

Robert McCauley | 
As Rebecca Sykes notes, ”Neanderthals neither ignored corpses nor treated them like rubbish.” ...
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‘We could completely replace the human body with one that is ideal for space travel’ — Future space travel options come into focus

Steven Novella | 
Perhaps the optimal way to most fully adapt humans to alien environments is to completely replace the human body with ...
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Viewpoint: Evolutionary trap — ‘Forces that encouraged our ancestors to compete for resources fueled early human success but now threaten to end it’

Kristen French | 
Evolution has led us into a dark corner, as the scale and impact of human groups has kept growing, and ...
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Darwin’s legacy: A popular new guide through the sometimes obtuse world of evolution

C. Brandon Ogbunu | 
The study of Charles Darwin is a useful exercise in the history of science, as it teaches us that the ...
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Challenging the anti-GMO ‘foreign gene’ Frankenfood myth: Crops ‘steal’ genes from other species to accelerate evolution

Research, led by the University of Sheffield, is the first to show that grasses can incorporate DNA from other species ...
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Podcast: Why we ‘evolved not to lose weight’

Andrea Kane | 
The evolutionary reasons why it's hard to lose weight and keep it off: fat helped early humans stay alive ...
Humans, apes and monkeys: Parts of primate DNA are stable after 65 million years of evolution

Humans, apes and monkeys: Parts of primate DNA have been stable over 65 million years of evolution

V. Geetanath | 
Scientists have found that 3% to 5% of the genes in the human genome, which descended from a common ancestor ...
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