Experts have been studying remote mountain communities and found they have certain genetic advantages which prove that ...

Deep Tree: Students explore an interactive tree of life and trace the shared ancestry ... applications of phylogeny to health, and human evolution. The worksheets are divided into missions and ...

human intelligence might never have emerged. What do you think? Is intelligent life inevitable? More specifically, is intelligent life an inevitable result of evolution?

This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great ... and distant kin in a vast family tree of life. The implications are breathtaking; if we could travel ...

A new study led by the Roslin Institute seeks to unlock the mysteries behind a powerful genetic phenomenon that has played a crucial role in the evolution ... the Darwin Tree of Life project ...

What do phylogenetic trees illustrate? These diagrams don't just organize knowledge of biodiversity - they also show us that living species are the summation of their evolutionary history.

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the ...

The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, according ... have been reconstructing evolution by tracing how ...

Erin Wayman is a science and human evolution blogger for Hominid ... that no longer have a place on the human family tree A longer life expectancy might have allowed members of the genus Homo ...

Charles Darwin's theory states that all organisms alive today evolved from more simple life forms. Two fossils named Ardi and Lucy provide evidence for human evolution. Both were found in Africa.

The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, according ... have been reconstructing evolution by tracing how ...

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