Learn how repeated burn injuries may have acted as a form of natural selection, influencing human genes linked to healing and ...

Processes and history : Introduction: the development of concepts in the study of human variation -- The genetic basis of evolution / Dobzhansky -- Charles Lyell / Eiseley -- Charles Darwin / Eiseley ...

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...

The Origins Science Scholars Series will continue with a presentation by Cynthia Beall, Distinguished University Professor and the Sarah Idell Pyle Professor of Anthropology, titled “Tracing Evolution ...

The UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute has received a $2 million grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation for ongoing research to develop a comprehensive map of human genetic variation. The Human Genome ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

For decades, the dominant theory in human evolution suggested that modern humans descended from a single ancestral lineage in Africa. However, groundbreaking new research from the University of ...

Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy straightforward explanation. From the jut of the human chin to the curve of the outer ...