Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

Leibniz Institute for Primate Research and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics have discovered ...

In particular, it explains that humans have one fewer chromosome pair in their cells than apes, due to a mutation found in chromosome number 2 that caused two chromosomes to fuse into one.

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations ... may have played a crucial role in human evolution," said Cousins. The study also found that genes inherited from ...

When an infected mosquito bites a human, the malaria parasite enters ... However it happened, people who inherited one copy of the sickle cell allele had red blood cell membranes that did not ...

Sometimes, the most significant scientific discoveries happen by accident. Scientists have long known that whole-genome ...

Two fossils named Ardi and Lucy provide evidence for human evolution. Both were found in Africa. Ardi is a female human-like fossilised skeleton that dates from 4.4 million years ago. Ardi's bones ...

The evolutionary changes underlying these features were significant in allowing the evolution ... One of these SNPs stood out ...

A rendering of the appearance of the human cell lineage big science research facility Photo: Chinese Academy of Sciences.

A multi-modal single-cell ... The Human Tumor Atlas Network leverages scientific collaboration to integrate samples, analytical modalities and tools into detailed atlases of tumor evolution.