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Early Human Ancestors Ate Grass
Early human ancestors in central Africa 3.5 million years ago ate a diet of mostly tropical grasses and sedges,...
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Origins of Genetic Blending Between Europeans and Asians
A group of researchers led by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona has discovered the first scientific evidence of genetic...
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Tools Hint at Earlier Start for Human Smarts
A trove of sophisticated stone tools recently dug up from a South African cliff suggests early modern humans developed...
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Humans, Chimpanzees and Monkeys Share DNA, Not Gene Regulation
Humans share over 90% of their DNA with their primate cousins. The expression or activity patterns of genes differ...
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The Real Question: Who Didn’t Have Sex With Neanderthals?
The only modern humans whose ancestors did not interbreed with Neanderthals are apparently sub-Saharan Africans, researchers say. New findings,...
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New Study Sheds Light on How and When Vision Evolved
Opsins, the light-sensitive proteins key to vision, may have evolved earlier and undergone fewer genetic changes than previously believed,...
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Early Human ‘Lucy’ Swung From the Trees
Despite the ability to walk upright, early relatives of humanity represented by the famed “Lucy” fossil likely spent much...
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Grandmothers Responsible for Human Longevity
The helpfulness of grandmothers is the reason humans don’t die in their thirties the way chimpanzees do, new research...
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Study Links Cooked Food to Early Humans’ Growing Brains
Here’s something for raw-food aficionados to chew on: Cooked food might be a big reason humans were able to...
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Fly Genomes Show Natural Selection
When ancestral humans walked out of Africa tens of thousands of years ago, Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies came along...