The researchers from the University of New England in Australia and the East Tennessee State University in the United States found that biting with high force risked damaging jaw joints, indicating ...

Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is a growing health threat, but its evolution outside laboratory settings is poorly understood. Bacteria living in the human gut are now found to evolve ...

A quiet dig in Romania unearthed more than ancient bones it cracked open our understanding of when and how humans first ...

Based on the site’s age and location, the team suspects it was once inhabited by a human ancestor called Homo heidelbergensis. But they haven’t found any evidence yet to confirm this hunch.

A fossil jawbone found off Taiwan has been confirmed as Denisovan using ancient protein analysis, revealing they lived in ...

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Apr. 21, 2025 — An international collaboration has published groundbreaking research, shedding light on the most significant increase in complexity in the history of life's evolution on Earth ...

To further analyze the history and evolution of the Malus genomes, the team examined the 30 sequenced genomes in an analytical approach called pan-genomics. This approach involved comprehensive ...

The thread of human history is incredibly long and has been woven for millions of years. The journey of our species, Homo ...

Scientists link baker’s yeast evolution to ancient human movements, suggesting we’ve been shaping microbial life far longer than imagined. New research from the University of Georgia (UGA) has ...

The international community has a golden opportunity to start reining in the escalating, mostly ignored global burden of chronic kidney disease.