News tagged with human evolutionary studies
1.5 million-year-old fossil humans walked on modern feet (Video)
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 26, 2009 |
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Ancient footprints found at Rutgers' Koobi Fora Field School show that some of the earliest humans walked like us and did so on anatomically modern feet 1.5 million years ago.
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Novel evolutionary tools for studying human populations using the X chromosome
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Jun 16, 2008 |
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Research in the Department of Genetics at University of Leicester is well-known for its human population studies with the Y chromosome, including the relationship between the male surname and the Y chromosome, as well as ...
A good night's sleep protects against parasites
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Jan 09, 2009 |
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Animal species that sleep for longer do not suffer as much from parasite infestation and have a greater concentration of immune cells in their blood according to a study published in the open-access journal BMC Evolutionary Bi ...
Why can we talk? 'Humanized' mice speak volumes
May 28, 2009 |
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Mice carrying a "humanized version" of a gene believed to influence speech and language may not actually talk, but they nonetheless do have a lot to say about our evolutionary past, according to a report in the May 29th issue ...
Genetic loci assigned for musical aptitude in Finnish families
May 19, 2008 |
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Researchers from Finland and USA have identified one major and several potential loci associated with musical aptitude in the human genome. The results raise an interesting question about common evolutionary background of ...
'Hobbit' fossils a new species, anthropologist says
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 08, 2009 |
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An analysis of an 18,000-year-old fossil, described as the remains of a diminutive humanlike creature, proves that genuine cave-dwelling "hobbits" once flourished in Southeast Asia, according to a Long Island anthropologist ...
Study: Butterflyfish may face extinction
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Feb 26, 2008 |
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An Australian-U.S. study suggests the black, white and yellow butterflyfish admired by eco-tourists and aquarium keepers might be at risk of extinction.
Trust in a teardrop: Researcher says tears can help build, strengthen personal relationships
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 24, 2009 |
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Medically, crying is known to be a symptom of physical pain or stress. But now a Tel Aviv University evolutionary biologist looks to empirical evidence showing that tears have emotional benefits and can make interpersonal ...
Genetic based human diseases are an ancient evolutionary legacy
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Oct 16, 2008 |
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Tomislav Domazet-Lošo and Diethard Tautz from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön, Germany, have systematically analysed the time of emergence for a large number of genes - genes which ...
Common cold virus came from birds
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Nov 20, 2008 |
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A virus that causes cold-like symptoms in humans originated in birds and may have crossed the species barrier around 200 years ago, according to an article published in the December issue of the Journal of General Virology. ...
Researchers Find 'Junk DNA' May Have Triggered Key Evolutionary Changes in Human Thumb and Foot
Sep 04, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Out of the 3 billion genetic letters that spell out the human genome, Yale scientists have found a handful that may have contributed to the evolutionary changes in human limbs that enabled ...
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