Ancestry & Evolution
The desire to understand our origins is primal. By examining our DNA over successive generations through the evolutionary process of inherited characteristics of human and animal populations–as well as from those species from which humans share a common ancestry–we can decipher our individual and collective past and develop medical innovations for the future.
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Beauty vs. brains: Why certain assets deemed more valuable than others?
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Oldest ever human pinky fossil raises new questions about our ancient ancestors
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How do new genes arise within genome?
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Frogs’ genes adapt quickly to chemical threats in environment
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Skin color didn’t always designate race or ethnicity
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Is free will an illusion, and how can we tell?
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Paleo diet update: Carbs in tubers key to humans’ evolutionary boon
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White skin evolved only recently, in several distinct human populations
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Paleontologists look to history to predict how climate change will affect biodiversity
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Mass extinctions speed up evolution, according to robots
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Octopus genome reveals surprising traits of sophisticated, alien-like earthling
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Amygdala not actually brain’s ‘fear center’
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Sneaky monkey ‘hook-ups’ give peek into primate cognition
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Sorry, Paleo-dieters: Big human brain needs carbs to evolve
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Earliest Americans looked European, but genes tell more complicated story
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While UK embraces life-saving germline editing, US mired in debate as promising life-saving cases go untreated
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Sex before you’re born: Early organism, ancient human cousin, had kinky mating rituals
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Small contributions from Neanderthals, Denosovans had huge influence on modern human genome
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Evolution research answers why it ‘takes a village’ to raise human children
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Cancer cells are ‘cheaters’ in Darwin’s vision of evolution
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