He Jiankui and two collaborators were found guilty of “illegal medical practices” He Jiankui, the Chinese researcher who stunned the…
(Image: Fossilized hippopotamid skeleton with Oldowan artifacts) Archaeologists have revealed what could be the oldest stone tools ever found, and…
Aminopeptidase N is a protein that acts as a receptor for coronaviruses, the family of viruses behind recent epidemics of…
Biological anthropologists use genetic data to understand the evolutionary relationships that humans share with great apes and to examine how…
Some 60 years ago, two researchers, Joe Hin Tjio and Albert Levan, discovered that the number of chromosomes (karyotype) in humans was 46…
New evidence is prompting researchers to rethink Homo sapiens’ origin story—and what it means to be human. ✽ AS A UNIVERSITY…
The "robust" australopiths are a group of hominins with large cheek teeth and strongly built jaws that lived alongside the…
A selective advantage may have led the modern human Y chromosome to sweep through the Neanderthal population after it was…
Modern humans and more ancient hominins interbred many times throughout Eurasia and Africa, and the genetic flow went both ways.…
Paranthropus robustus. Credit: Guérin Nicolas/wikipedia., CC BY-SA Genetic diseases are fairly common today, with more than one in 25 children being born with…