A groundbreaking DNA study reveals how genetic mutations pass through generations, offering new insights into disease and ...

Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

Our human species emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago but scientists don't yet have a clear picture of what kind of ...

A team of researchers has used advanced DNA sequencing to develop the most comprehensive atlas yet of genetic change through ...

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The results, published this week in Nature magazine by an international team of 123 researchers, help deepen people's understanding of human evolution and protect endangered ape populations.

Through his research on artificial intimacy between humans and AI chatbots, Brooks became interested in how human evolution might be shaped by the proliferation of AI. He recently published a ...

Segmental duplications are important because they underlie several human diseases and have been key to shaping the evolution of great apes. For example, human-specific copy-number increases of ...

The resource is already lending itself to comparative studies that offer new insights into human and ape evolution, and into what underlies the functional differences among these species.

After more than two decades of work, researchers have achieved a genetics milestone: they have successfully sequenced the complete genomes of six ape species, a feat that seemed impossible just a ...

Next, a second group dissected that same brain region, dividing it into layers 1/400th the width of a human hair, and took pictures of each slice. Due to the delicate nature of the structure ...