Human evolution is the part of biological evolution concerning the emergence of humans as a distinct species. It is the subject of a broad scientific inquiry that seeks to understand and describe ...

He sees a world where human biological evolution ... the list is far from exhaustive — could lead to the sort of pressures that could accelerate evolution — beyond the background rate — in ...

Human biology is the study of all aspects of the human organism including evolution, genetics, ecology, anatomy and physiology, development, anthropology, and nutrition, among others.. A deep ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

Omer Gokcumen Professor of Biological Sciences Expertise: human and primate evolution, ancient humans (including Neanderthals and Denisovans), anthropological genomics Phone: 716-645-4937 ...

Her academic background is in evolutionary biology and genetics, and she has extensive experience in scientific research, ... Tracing the evolution of human sleep cycles".

The human Y did once contain as many genes as the X chromosome, but has lost them in the past 166 million years. As a result, most of the Y today is made up of repetitive "junk DNA ." ...

But predicting evolution is, if anything, even more precarious. Combining the two involves considerable speculation, and the very strong possibility of being wrong. At the risk of being wrong, my ...

The complete assembly of each human chromosome is essential for understanding human biology and evolution. Using complementary long-read sequencing technologies, we complete the first linear assembly ...