"BODY WORLDS has fundamentally changed the way we understand the human body and has contributed to a new culture of education ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics. The COVID-19 pandemic was, at its heart, a ...

"Haplogroups are like family seals," Dr Krista Kostroman, a genetic medicine specialist and Chief Science Officer at The DNA Company ... rarity makes it a powerful clue for tracing human history." ...

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

Recent discoveries have sparked a wave of excitement and intrigue among scientists and the public alike, as evidence suggests the existence of ancient non-human artifacts on Earth. These findings, if ...

A construction project in Southeast Asia dredged up the remains of the extinct human relative Homo erectus from the seabed. The discovery, described in four studies in the June Quaternary Environments ...

To make horses rideable during domestication, people may have inadvertently targeted a mutation in horses to strengthen their backs and their balance.

Hundreds of stone tools discovered in Kenya have revealed that human relatives traveled long distances to find raw material.

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