Does evolution now mean not just the slow grind ... reengineer pig embryos to make their organs safer for transplant into humans. A colleague of Church’s, Kevin Esvelt at the MIT Media Lab ...

Experts have been studying remote mountain communities and found they have certain genetic advantages which prove that ...

Despite humans and whales being separated by millions ... by hunter-gatherers Sarah Kuta Two new studies offer insights into the evolution and development of external ears, which appear in humans ...

Venturing into the new Laotian cave—called Tam Neun ... he would make another discovery that would change the map of human evolution. A version of this story appears in the February 2025 ...

Researchers discovered how genetic switches shaped human brain evolution by fine-tuning shared gene expression.

Scientists call this feature a “neural fossil”. It’s a remnant of a system that once helped our ancestors pinpoint the ...

Remarkable social behaviors have been discovered in Kinda baboons (Papio kindae) that set them apart from other baboon ...

This phenomenon demonstrates that human evolution is still ongoing. A new study has found that for the past 10,000 years, populations on the Tibetan Plateau have developed particular adaptations ...

New Insights Into the Denisovans: New Hominin Group That Interbred With Modern Day Humans Nov. 8 ... unlike birds, the evolution of bats' wings and legs is tightly coupled, which may have ...

Finally, as much as many would like, humans cannot evolve into crabs in the distant future. But that does not mean humankind is not experiencing evolution at all. Orangutans are our closest ...

New Insights Into the Denisovans ... Dishing the Dirt on Human Evolution: Why Scientific Techniques Matter in Archaeology Nov. 30, 2023 — Scientists should seek answers hidden in the dirt ...