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Missing link: The complicated sex lives of ancient humans

Emma Betuel&nbsp|&nbsp
Analysis of two Neanderthal genomes, one Denisovan genome, and four modern human genomes revealed new evidence of gene flow between ...

Podcast: How male sex drive evolved

For decades, scientists suggested that fatherhood fulfilled a primarily evolutionary function: protecting and providing for offspring in return for sex ...

Why did fatherhood evolve?

Emma Betuel&nbsp|&nbsp
We might take the doting modern dad for granted, but if you take a look at the rest of the ...
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How an event in what is now the United States may have contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire

Nina Pullano&nbsp|&nbsp
With a new analysis of particles found in ice cores, researchers determined that [Alaskan volcano] Okmok's eruption coincided with Rome's ...
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Recreating evolution: Human gene triggers bigger brains in monkeys

Nina Pullano&nbsp|&nbsp
Researchers in Germany and Japan introduced a human-specific gene to the fetuses of common marmosets, Callithrix jacchus. In turn, that ...

‘Extreme difficulty’ trusting past experiences may be key factor for people with OCD, study says

Grace Browne&nbsp|&nbsp
Often, the human brain can overcome worries and fears by casting the mind back to past experiences that have worked ...

3 modern adaptations that prove humans are still evolving

Sarah Sloat&nbsp|&nbsp
Genetic mutations lead to new traits — and with the world population now above 7 billion and rising, the chances ...

Gene-editing ‘vaccine’ could radically change heart disease risk

Ali Pattillo&nbsp|&nbsp
As many as 50 percent of heart attacks strike without any warning signs and in individuals with no history of heart disease. When ...
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Interbreeding with Neanderthals, Denisovans gave us an evolutionary boost, study says

Sarah Sloat&nbsp|&nbsp
When Homo sapiens left Africa and encountered the Homo neanderthalensis in Europe, the two ancient hominins did the obvious thing and had sex with ...

What the next 20 years have in store for male birth control, including a gel rubbed into the shoulders

Sarah Sloat&nbsp|&nbsp
[M]ale contraception has been limited to the same two options for the last 100 years: condoms and a vasectomy. Neither ...

3 ‘biomarkers’ linked to male sexual orientation in study

Yasmin Tayag&nbsp|&nbsp
The search for the “gay gene” is rooted in a fraught question: Does homosexuality have a biological basis? The reasons ...

Fathers who exercise may also improve the genetics of their children, study suggests

Emma Betuel&nbsp|&nbsp
A positive perception of regular exercise may be one of the more lasting gifts a parent can give their children. But there’s ...

CRISPR-edited chickens are coming: Can they stop a bird flu epidemic?

Sarah Sloat&nbsp|&nbsp
Humans don’t usually get the flu directly from animals, but human outbreaks of bird and swine flu can and do ...

Tragic tradeoff: How depression evaded evolution

Emma Betuel&nbsp|&nbsp
Depression is an evolutionary conundrum. On the one hand, it’s the leading cause of disability worldwide; on the other, the ...

Climate change makes bugs hungrier, which could threaten our food supply

Dana Dovey&nbsp|&nbsp
Climate change is already threatening our food supply by raising temperatures and causing wildfires, but as a new study in ...

Linked at last? 4-million-year-old skull connects humans to ‘Lucy’ ancestor

Sarah Sloat&nbsp|&nbsp
Long before Neanderthals or Homo erectus wandered the Earth, there lived an early human species called Australopithecus afarensis. Most famously represented by the specimen known ...

We’ve been dealing with bubonic plague for 4,000 years, DNA analysis of ancient skeletons shows

Sarah Sloat&nbsp|&nbsp
Recently, the examination of two 3,800-year old skeletons revealed the presence of a Yersinia pestis strain, famously the bacterium that causes plague. This ...

Evolution of modern human behavior linked to the rounding of our brains

Sarah Sloat&nbsp|&nbsp
In a study published [January 24] in Science Advances, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology announced that the earliest Homo sapiens did ...
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Racists are wrong: Both light and dark skin originated in Africa

Yasmin Tayag&nbsp|&nbsp
[L]ong-held racist assumptions based on skin color have been scientifically proven wrong, according to a groundbreaking new study in the ...
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Why evolution does not weed out all genetic diseases

Peter Hess&nbsp|&nbsp
To anyone with a basic understanding of evolution, it should seem puzzling that deadly genetic diseases, passed on from one generation to ...

Lava tube cities could be key to colonization of Moon and Mars

Sarah Sloat&nbsp|&nbsp
[R]esearchers at the European Planetary Science Congress, an annual meeting of that serves as a “dissemination platform” for new space studies, ...

Redheads easily sunburned because of the mutation that gives them red hair

Rafi Letzter&nbsp|&nbsp
[M]ost everyone — regardless of hair color — burns. Even people who never burn build up mutations in their skin ...
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Junk food cravings? That burning desire for chocolate may be genetic

Peter Hess&nbsp|&nbsp
[A]ccording to some new research on how your genes affect the foods you seek out, it’s not your fault [if ...

Will you lose your hair? Baldness algorithm of 287 gene regions can predict your chances

Sarah Sloat&nbsp|&nbsp
[A] recent study...has become the first to detail exactly which genes are involved [in male pattern baldness]. ... [A] team ...

‘Alphabet of life’ expanded by 2 synthetic letters, may help make organisms ‘Earth has never seen’

Yasmin Tayag&nbsp|&nbsp
Until very recently, life on Earth was dictated by strings of just four letters: G, A, T, and C...Deciphering nature’s ...

Should we include robotic limbs and A.I. when talking about evolution?

Yasmin Tayag&nbsp|&nbsp
Scientists have a hard time deciding what Homo Futurus might look like. Will our evolutionary descendants resemble us? Will they be ...

GMO critics say Golden Rice not a ‘silver bullet’ in fight against vitamin A deficiency

Jacqueline Ronson&nbsp|&nbsp
...16 years and a lot of money from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation later, and some progress has been ...

Despite what you may have read, there’s no ‘gay gene’

Yasmin Tayag&nbsp|&nbsp
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  Scientists presenting at the ...