“That is actually one of the most important mechanisms for modern human evolution,” he says. “In the last couple of hundred years, and certainly in the last century, human populations have been mixing ...

The authors make a tentative correlation between the emergence of ASPM/A44871G haplotype and the arrival of modern humans in Europe. ASPM gene evolution appears to have continued throughout the ...

Many people hold the view that evolution in modern humans has come to a halt. But while modern medicine and technologies have changed the environment in which evolution operates, many scientists ...

But evolution isn't bound strictly to genes anymore ... may have boosted our brain function 'Speech gene' seen only in modern humans may have helped us evolve to talk "When a virus attacks ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the ...

and others where both modern and archaic humans differed from non-human primates. "We used an interdisciplinary approach to understand the evolution of hominid prosociality through the lens of the ...

Modern human cultural expression is characterized ... The earliest evidence for the evolution of bipedality—walking upright on two legs—which may have enabled the earliest hominins to expand ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected ...

was a pivotal period for the evolution of hominins — species that are regarded as human or closely related — including modern humans. Published in the Journal of Human Evolution on July 31 ...