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 ...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

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 ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected ...

Biological anthropology is the sub-discipline of anthropology that studies human evolution and variation. Specific emphasis is on mechanisms of biological evolution, genetic inheritance, human ...

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

Tech is evolving too fast for human biology. Mental health trends show we're struggling. To survive, we must speed up adaptation—culturally, mentally, and structurally.

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 ." ...

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 ...