Mar 19, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Fragments of an early human skull dating back 100,000 years exhibit a now-rare congenital deformation that indicates inbreeding might well have been common...

Mar 4, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An extremely rare African American Y chromosome found in an individual who submitted his DNA to a company specializing in DNA analysis to trace family...

Feb 24, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Biologists from the University of Bergen and the University of Vienna have studied a simple, brainless sea anemone to learn more about the evolutionary...

Feb 8, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

According to a research published in the open access journal PLoS ONE, a 400k year old fragment of human lower jaw recovered from a Serbian cave is the...

Nov 29, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Analysis of skeletal remains found in an island cave in Favignana, Italy, has revealed that modern humans first settled in Sicily around the time of the...

Oct 4, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to a multinational team of scientists led by Dr Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo of Complutense University, Madrid, a fragment of a child’s skull...

Sep 19, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A study led by Dr Christopher Karpowitz of Brigham Young University shows that having a seat at the table is very different than having a voice, for women. Scientists...

Sep 6, 2012 by Sci-News.com

The Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project, an international collaboration of more than 440 scientists in 32 labs in United States, the United Kingdom,...

Aug 21, 2012 by Sci-News.com

According to an international team of anthropologists, an ancient skull collected from a cave in the Annamite Mountains in northern Laos is the oldest...