Many people look at human evolution chiefly to explain us, Homo sapiens. But we are the culmination of a long process of evolution—no more than 5% of the whole hominin story by time spent on ...

Human evolution, traditionally driven by natural selection, may have reached a point where technological and medical advancements are interfering with the age-old processes that shaped our species ...

Human evolution FAQs Pictures Human evolution Quick facts about human evolution Oldest discovered Homo sapiens skeletons: 315,000 years old Where these early fossils were found: Jebel Irhoud, Morocco ...

Scientists find genetic mutation, millions of years ago. Oct. 12, 2011 — -- About three million years ago human predecessors embarked on a new course that would forever alter the evolution of ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts—from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain—have been assembled in fits and starts over the 4 billion years of ...

Noonan’s lab is focused on understanding how HAR s contribute to the evolution of uniquely human brain features. In previous work the team has shown that some HAR s alter gene expression in ...

Fifty years ago, our understanding of human origins began to change with the discovery of Lucy, a remarkably complete, 3.2-million-year-old human relative unearthed from the sandy soil in Hadar ...

This new hypothesis takes this further in arguing that these hormones may have also shaped the evolution of the human brain." Dr. Tsompanidis added: "Our hypothesis puts pregnancy at the heart of ...

Dr. Sawchuk is a bioarchaeologist who studies ancient human remains in their archaeological contexts to reconstruct modern human evolution and population history in Africa over the past 50,000 years.

Climatic changes and human evolution The review also extensively discussed the role of climate in the evolution within the subfamily Homininae by exploring several key themes, such as the impact ...

While our current research has shed light on the evolution of the human heart, our work analysing the hearts of endangered great apes continues. Sadly, cardiac disease is the leading cause of ...