It is considered to be a side branch of our evolutionary tree ... understanding the hominin family tree, though this is based on a very small amount of genetic information, so we need to be ...

In animals, the behavior of the ... is also challenging the tree metaphor, which is based on the assumption that the pattern of evolution is a branching one, with each branch starting from a single ...

New research from the University of Minnesota Medical School suggests that different genetic forms of autism may lead to ...

Researchers at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) have identified a remarkably small but critical piece of genetic code that ... including anxiety-like behavior and reduced movement.

In general, human populations share most of the same genetic variation and evolutionary history. New research raises the possibility that recent human history involved far more dynamic evolution ...

Over the past 500 million years, nearly all evolutionary changes in octopuses and squids occurred in rapid bursts during the ...

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