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Neanderthals lost genetic diversity around 110,000 years ago. Researchers confirmed this by studying fossilized inner ears.

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Selective breeding over the past century has shortened and flattened the snouts of German domestic pigs. Though not an ...

Explore how new research suggests that intelligent life may emerge naturally under favorable conditions over time.

In a lab at Rockefeller University in New York, a mouse squeaks. But this is no ordinary squeak. It is a strange, complex ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.

Scientists have identified NOVA1, a unique human language gene that may have played a key role in the evolution of spoken ...

Short snouts and a flat profile—within a span of 100 years, humans have significantly changed the shape of the skulls of ...

New research suggests a genetic variant in the NOVA1 protein may have played a key role in the emergence of human speech.