Evolution

A group of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley has mapped out the evolution of Neanderthal DNA over the last 40,000 years

By studying our closest single-celled relatives, scientists find that proteins important for stem cell pluripotency existed before the evolutionary jump to multicellularity.

Scientists have created a 3D map of the woolly mammoth genome from a remarkably well preserved 50,000-year-old sample.

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Paleontologists taking a closer look at an old fossil uncover new information about how leaves evolved.

In a first, two groups of researchers have created a chimeric mouse brain with rat cells, providing a new way to understand brain evolution.

Researchers have uncovered a genetic variant that is associated with childhood leukemia disparities in Hispanic-Americans.

Losing a tail on human's evolutionary branch may have been caused by a rare kind of mutation resulting from parasitic, self-replicating DNA.

After generating 187 new genomes from primate species, researchers found a large fraction of the human genome that is highly conserved across evolution.

Researchers have discovered that one of humanity’s closest relatives also experiences menopause, contradicting a popular hypothesis about the evolutionary origins of this process.