Why The Tibetan Plateau Holds The Key To A New Era Of Human Evolution
A new study reveals that Tibetan communities have developed unique adaptations to survive in the low-oxygen conditions of the ...
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Less, but more: A new evolutionary scenario marked by massive gene loss and expansion
Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion ...
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How Humans Are Shaping Our Own Evolution
“DNA was left in the dust by cultural evolution,” he says, “but now it’s catching up.” Distant future: Can humans adapt to the red planet? Large-scale evolutionary divergence from the ...
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Evolution: Early humans adapted to extreme desert conditions over one million years ago
Homo erectus was able to adapt to and survive in desert-like environments at least 1.2 million years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & Environment. The findings suggest ...
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AI Simulates Half a Billion Years of Evolution to Create a Glowing Protein That Nature Never Could
What if evolution could be simulated in a lab? At the intersection of artificial intelligence, biology, and evolutionary ...
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Evolution without sex: How mites have survived for millions of years
An international research team has discovered various mechanisms in asexual mites that generate genetic diversity and thus ensure survival.