A landmark study pinpoints the birthplace of modern humans in southern Africa and suggests how past climate shifts drove their first migration. A study has concluded that the earliest ancestors of ...

branched from the Y chromosome tree before the first appearance of anatomically modern humans in the fossil record. The results are published in the American Journal of Human Genetics.

In this study, we have explored the origin and evolution of human lethal violence by integrating a phylogenetic approach ... or Supraprimates (primates, tree-shrews, colugos, rodents and hares ...

Previously, some fossil evidence has suggested that modern humans ... tree of our earliest ancestral branches better than ever before,” said Eva Chan, study author and phylogenetic analysis ...

Its mashup of both ancient and more modern anatomical ... of these ancient humans found outside the cave that gives the group its name. The newly proposed phylogenetic tree suggests the Dragon ...

Due to the zoonotic nature of SARS-CoV-2, it is next to impossible to predict the trajectory of the future phylogenetic diversity of the virus, and how it may adapt and evolve to infect humans in ...

The extinction of hundreds of bird species caused by humans over the last ... like chopping off a branch of the tree of life and all of that associated phylogenetic diversity is also lost.” ...