Large structural changes to the genomes of human ancestors could have spurred the smaller changes that set human brains apart from other primates SAN FRANCISCO, CA—April 28, 2023—More than a million ...
The secrets of human brain evolution are beginning to be unveiled thanks to a recent study. Researchers have explored key ...
Researchers participating in the Zoonomia project have just published a trove of papers outlining numerous findings from the effort, in which the genomes of 240 mammals were carefully analyzed and ...
Human-accelerated regions (HARs) are sections of the human genome that have accumulated an unusually high level of mutations as humans split away from chimpanzees. Given their rapid evolution, some ...