An international team of researchers from the United States and Germany today reports having sequenced and annotated the genome of the Philippine tarsier....
A group of researchers in the United Kingdom has identified a set of gene families whose sizes are positively associated with an expanded neocortex —...
A team of researchers at Linköping University in Sweden has identified two genomic regions and five candidate genes associated with dog’s human-directed...
A new technique devised by a team of researchers at the University of Washington leverages the signals already generated by fingerprint sensors on smartphones...
Early Homo sapiens arrived in South America earlier than believed, new research shows.
Sample of stone tools (scrapers, flakes and bipolar cobble) found...
A careful statistical examination of words from 6,000+ languages shows that humans tend to use the same sounds for common objects and ideas, no matter...
A Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory-led interdisciplinary research team has developed the first-ever biological identification method that exploits...
According to a team of researchers at Loughborough University, UK, many four-year-olds are not physically ready to start school.
Movement for Learning....
A team of scientists led by Dr. Ole Andreassen of the University of Oslo in Norway and the University of California, San Diego, has found evidence for...
Australian artist Patricia Piccinini, trauma surgeons and crash investigation experts have collaborated to produce ‘Graham,’ an educational tool for...
In a new study published in the journal eLife, scientists apply big-data analysis to reveal the full extent of viruses’ impact on the evolution of humans...
A multinational team of researchers led by University College London (UCL) has found four genes that impact nose shape.
Image showing variation between...
An international team of genetic researchers from the United States and Europe has found new evidence that there was an Ice Age refugium in southern Arabia.
Spatial...
Analyses of genome-wide data from 51 Eurasians from 7,000 – 45,000 years ago reveal two big changes in prehistoric human populations that are closely...
A novel technology being developed by a team of researchers at Binghamton University has delivered outstanding results over the ability to identify persons...
A new study published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology suggests that the transfer of infectious pathogens between populations of Neanderthals...
Neanderthal Y-chromosome genes disappeared from the genome of modern humans long ago, suggests a new study published this week in the American Journal...
Dr. David Reich from Harvard Medical School and his colleagues have produced a world map of Denisovan and Neanderthal ancestry in 120 diverse populations....
