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For thousands of years, spoken language has set humans apart from all other species. The ability to convey complex ideas, ...

New research suggests a genetic variant in the NOVA1 protein may have played a key role in the emergence of human speech.

The Noonan lab at Yale University is focused on understanding how HARs contribute to the evolution of uniquely human brain features.

A genetic study published on Tuesday offers an important new clue. Researchers found that, between 250,000 and 500,000 years ...

For the past 150 years, scientists and laypeople alike have accepted a “savanna” scenario of human evolution. The theory, primarily based on fossil evidence, suggests that because our ancestral ape ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

Researchers discovered how genetic switches shaped human brain evolution by fine-tuning shared gene expression.

Most of the genomic changes that occurred during human evolution did not occur directly ... levels of the TBX1 gene and that ...

When evolution skeptics want to attack ... could have gone through changes and complexities to form the human eye, with its many parts and astounding abilities. Through natural selection ...