New findings solve human origins mystery
An extraordinary advance in human origins research reveals evidence of the emergence of the upright human body plan over 15 million years earlier than most experts have believed.

New research sheds light on 'hobbit'
This study offers one of the most striking confirmations of the original interpretation of the hobbit as an island remnant of one of the oldest human migrations to Asia.

Neandertals, humans share key changes to 'language gene'
A new study reveals that adaptive changes in a human gene involved in speech and language were shared by our closest extinct relatives, the Neandertals.

Neanderthal teeth grew no faster than comparable modern humans
Recent research suggested that ancient Neanderthals might have had an accelerated childhood compared to that of modern humans

Neanderthals were as good at hunting as early modern humans
New study reveals Neanderthals were as good at hunting as early modern humans

Ancient DNA reveals that some Neanderthals were redheads
Neanderthals' pigmentation possibly as varied as humans', scientists say

Genetic study of Neanderthal DNA reveals early split between humans and Neanderthals
In the most thorough study to date of the Neanderthal genome, scientists suggest an early human-Neanderthal split.

The human genome revolution or evolution?
The availability of the draft of the human genome sequence is an evolution rather than a revolution

Evidence for Widespread Convergent Evolution around Human Microsatellites
A combination of indirect approaches to show that microsatellites appear to create regions around them in which both the rate and spectrum of mutations are modified

The organization and evolution of the human Y chromosome
The recent sequencing of a large chunk of euchromatin from the human Y chromosome is a technical tour de force. It answers some evolutionary questions about this unusual chromosome while raising others.

Human Lsg1 defines a family of essential GTPases that correlates with the evolution of compartmentalization
They are ideal tools for comparative genomic studies aimed at understanding how aspects of biological complexity such as cellular compartmentalization evolved.

What makes man human: thirty-ninth James Arthur lecture on the evolution of the human brain, 1970
What makes man human is his brain. This brain is obviously different from those of nonhuman primates.

Key brain regulatory gene shows evolution in humans
Researchers have discovered the first brain regulatory gene that shows clear evidence of evolution from lower primates to humans.

Modern humans, not Neandertals, may be evolution's 'odd man out'
Could it be that in the great evolutionary "family tree," it is we Modern Humans, not the brow-ridged, large-nosed Neandertals, who are the odd uncle out?

The evolution of right- and left-handedness
New study compares handedness of medieval English villagers to modern-day sample

Neuron Cell Stickiness May Hold Key to Evolution of the Human Brain
The stickiness of human neurons may have been a key factor in why the human brain evolved beyond the brains of our primate relatives.

Unraveling where chimp and human brains diverge
New approach will pinpoint genes linked to evolution of human brain

Blame Our Evolutionary Risk of Cancer on Our Body Mass
A key enzyme that cuts short our cellular lifespan in an effort to thwart cancer has now been linked to body mass.

Complexity constrains evolution of human brain genes
Despite the explosive growth in size and complexity of the human brain, the pace of evolutionary change among the thousands of genes expressed in brain tissue has actually slowed since the split, millions of years ago, between human and chimpanzee

Pitt professor contends biological underpinnings
Evolutionary changes occur suddenly as opposed to the Darwinian model of evolution, which is characterized by gradual and constant change.