New research is shaking up our understanding of evolution by revealing that some species may not evolve gradually at all. Instead, scientists discovered that certain marine worms experienced an ...

Last year has yielded remarkable discoveries in human evolution, including fossils, genetic studies, footprints, and archaeological finds. This video covers the 5 most notable discoveries made in the ...

Here GEN asked eight industry leaders in the genomics space to share their perspectives on the 25th anniversary of HGP.

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

Mapping and understanding the brain's evolution over time is of crucial ... as part of large-scale projects, such as the Human Connectome Project (HCP), the developing Human Connectome Project ...

The new investigation revealed that parts of the human genome change much faster than was previously known, laying the foundations for new insights into the roots of human disease and evolution ...

The story of human evolution just took a dramatic turn ... By applying this method to human DNA datasets from the 1000 Genomes Project and the Human Genome Diversity Project, they uncovered ...

Published in Nature Genetics, the research offers a more complex theory of human evolution than the commonly ... modern human DNA from the 1000 Genomes Project, a global initiative that contains ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an ... analysis was collected as part of the so-called 1000 Genomes Project, which sequenced the DNA of people from across the globe.

The data used in the study is from the 1000 Genomes Project, a global initiative ... may have played a crucial role in human evolution,” said Cousins. The study also found that genes inherited ...

co-director of the Atapuerca Project focused on human evolution. Little is known about Europe's earliest human residents. There are fossils commonly attributed to Homo erectus dating to 1.8 ...

The study was produced as part of a £1 million Research Leadership Awards grant from the Leverhulme Trust. The project was to better understand the evolution of human ancestors.