Walk this way: how an upright gait made humans musical
Why don’t chimpanzees, our closest primate cousins, have musical ability? Scientists at örebro University in Sweden hypothesize that our musical…
Families forged from female food fanciers
A new mathematical simulation shows that the most commonly proposed theories for the emergence of human pair-bonding are not biologically…
Humans may be able to “see” magnetic fields
Humans are not considered to have an innate magnetic sense but new research published inNature Communications shows that a protein…
Religious ritual drives natural selection
A centuries-old religious ceremony carried out in a southern Mexican cave has led to evolutionary changes in a species of…
Modern Man In Evolutionary Fast Lane
A new study led by University of Wisconsin-Madison anthropologist John Hawks describes the past 40,000 years as a time of…
Language-Gene Evolution Shared By Humans And Neanderthals
Adaptive changes in a human gene involved in speech and language processing were shared by our closest extinct relatives, the…
Motor Neurons Grown From Stem Cells
After much trial and error, scientists have coaxed human embryonic stem cells into becoming spinal motor neurons, the critical nervous…
Genetic Gradient Theory Challenges Evolutionary Ideas
Research published in Science is the first in the world to demonstrate a genetic gradient – or path of gradually…