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Recommended Reading: The 10,000 Year Explosion
Almost since the 1871 publication of “The Descent of Man,” in which Charles Darwin applied his theory of natural selection to the human species, biologists have argued over whether the dramatic series...
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Environment, Not Genes, Key To Increasing Disease Rates
Type 1 diabetes is on the rise in European children, says a new report. Researchers studied type 1 diabetes data collected between 1989 and 2003 at 20 centers in 17 European countries. Their results,...
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The Giggling Chimp: Researchers Draw Evolutionary Link Between Human and Ape...
Great apes really do giggle when tickled, new research says – just like you and me. Researchers from the University of Hannover in Germany recorded the tickle-induced vocalizations from three human...
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Attention Human Genetic History Buffs
The journal Current Biology has a special review issue on the global genetic history of Homo sapiens. The articles are written for a fairly technical audience, but if it’s a topic you’re interested...
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More On 23andMe’s Neanderthal Lab
Not everyone would embrace their inner caveman, but in today’s Slate Ann Gibbons sure did. Gibbons, who also writes for Science, is the author of the book The First Human: The Race to Discover Our...
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Our Neanderthal Cousins
There’s much to recommend in Carl Zimmer’s profile of David Reich in Discovery Magazine, not least of which are details on our favorite extinct human cousins, Neanderthals. While Neanderthals are the...
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A Neanderthal Genome Sheds More Light On Human Evolution
Our favorite ancient cousins, the Neanderthals, are in the news again. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have sequenced the full genome from the toe bone of a...
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More Neanderthal
Scientists at the University of Washington’s Department of Genome Sciences, report that they can zero in on remnant Neanderthal DNA in modern humans, identifying specific regions in our genome where...
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A Gift To Humanity
Here at 23andMe we have an interest in all things Neanderthal, so when none other than Svante Paabo authored the book Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes we had to check it out. Professor Paabo,...
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Hello Cousin
Scientists have unearthed a trove of bones in a South African cave belonging to a previously unidentified early human relative. Composite skeleton of Homo nadeli along with other bones found at the...
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