For over a thousand years, the story of human evolution was simple: Homo sapiens developed in Africa between 200,000 and ...

Mounting evidence from genome studies indicates that, contrary to received wisdom, our species has undergone profound ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the ...

Yet this genetic similarity is very real ... many dramatic examples of how genes have been "conserved" throughout evolution -- that is, genes that perform certain functions in lower animals ...

[Kory] has been experimenting with genetic algorithms. Normally we’d expect his experiments to deal with tuning the variables in a control system or something, but he’s doing something much ...