Team redates prehistoric ‘Ubeidiya in Jordan Valley to same age as oldest Georgian site, suggesting at least two distinct ...

The ability to communicate symbolically is one of the hallmarks of our species, yet scientists still don’t know exactly when ...

Another suggestion is that tails disappeared from the earliest apes due to a genetic mistake. When a single short stretch of DNA found in humans and other apes, but not in other primates, was added to ...

Retrotransposons are pivotal in human genome evolution, driving structural variation and regulatory innovation while influencing health and disease.

The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

Why don't humans have tails anymore?Author Mark Grabowski Senior Lecturer of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Liverpool John Moores ...

A giant virus encodes part of the protein-making toolkit of cells that gives it greater control over its amoeba host, raising questions about how it evolved and how such beings relate to living organi ...

THE WEEK spoke to Kalema-Zi kusoka, 56, on the sidelines of the T.N. Khoshoo Memorial Award and Lecture, organised by the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, in Bengaluru ...

SACRAMENTO, CA, UNITED STATES, February 10, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Dr. Colin Paul Spears, best known by simply ...

In 1990, I finished my PhD on primate evolution and went to my postdoc in Davis, California, USA. It was meant to be on fruit fly ...

The difficulty is that EBV lives latently in B cells in the blood at a frequency, in most immunocompetent individuals, of about 1 in 100,000 to 1 in a million. That level of infection is below the ...

Zoo Miami recently celebrated milestone birthdays for two iconic chimpanzees who have called the zoo home since the early 1980s. Samantha arrived at Zoo Miami (then known as Miami Metrozoo) […] The ...