A new investigation led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine’s Human Genome Sequencing Center, the Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain, and ...

Surprisingly, human kissing may have evolved from behaviors seen in other primates, particularly grooming habits.

Major primate genome sequencing studies reveal new insight into evolution, biodiversity and key applications for human health Peer-Reviewed Publication ...

Researchers from 24 countries compared the genomes of 809 individual primates from 233 species and identified 4.3 million common missense mutations. The resulting studies uncovered DNA sequence ...

Human’s ability to talk may depend, in part, on our having lost a part of the larynx that dozens of other primate species have, new research suggests. 10'000 Hours/DigitalVision/getty images ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

A 2023 study observed that lip-to-lip kissing existed in ancient Mesopotamia circa 2500 BCE, yet its origins remain largely theoretical, based on the inherent difficulty in assessing many ancient ...

Comprehensive global studies on primate genomes have unveiled significant insights into their evolution, human disease, and biodiversity conservation, utilizing the largest-ever catalog of genomic ...

One Missing Feature From Your Wrist Is A Clear Sign Of Evolution. ... statistics indicate that 10–15% of the human population lack the ... was once crucial for our tree-climbing primate ...

A common example is the brief appearance of gill slits in early human embryos, reflecting the fact we can trace our evolution back to fish. We used both methods. Our first analysis included 3D brain ...

Some background — In the late 1960s ... The evolution of self-control is not so clear in an invertebrate like the cuttlefish, ... Unlike non-human primates, ...

Some background — Most scientists recognize that the highly dextrous human hand seems to differ in shape and form from the hands primates use to swing from trees.