Scientists resurrected antimicrobial peptides from mammals that lived millions of years ago and found that some were more ...

Variants in genes involved in the production of extracellular matrix molecules could have enabled the skeletal adaptations that distinguish humans from other great apes.

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The researchers suggest this behavioral shift is particularly intriguing when considered alongside another major change in human evolution: the dramatic increase in brain size that began around the ...

More than two decades after scientists first sequenced the entire human genome—all 3 billion base pairs, of DNA code—the meaning of much of this code remains a mystery. While an estimated 1% to 2% of ...