Genetics
Human pregnancy is weird—new research adds to the mystery
From an evolutionary perspective, human pregnancy is quite strange, says University at Buffalo biologist Vincent Lynch.
Apr 21, 2020
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Genetics
New clues into the genetic origins of schizophrenia
The first genetic analysis of schizophrenia in an ancestral African population, the South African Xhosa, appears in the Jan. 31 issue of the journal Science. An international group of scientists conducted the research, including ...
Jan 30, 2020
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Medical research
Mystery arthritis-linked knee bone three times more common than 100 years ago
The fabella, a small bone in the knee once lost to human evolution, has made a surprising resurgence over the last century.
Apr 22, 2019
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Uncovering the evolution of the brain
What makes us human, and where does this mysterious property of "humanness" come from? Humans are genetically similar to chimpanzees and bonobos, yet there exist obvious behavioral and cognitive differences. Now, researchers ...
Feb 13, 2019
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Neuroscience
A gene found only in humans and active in the cerebral cortex can enlarge the ferret brain
The human brain owes its characteristic wrinkled appearance to its outer layer, the cerebral cortex. During human evolution, the neocortex, the evolutionarily youngest part of the cerebral cortex, expanded dramatically and ...
Jan 8, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Long legs turn women's heads, arm length immaterial: study
Labouring over the age-old question "What do women look for in men?", scientists added an item to the list Wednesday: legs slightly longer than average, with a good shin-to-thigh ratio.
May 16, 2018
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CLOCK gene may hold answers to human brain evolution
Scientists have long sought to unravel the molecular mysteries that make the human brain special: What processes drove its evolution through the millennia? Which genes are critical to cognitive development?
Dec 6, 2017
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Memory limits give rise to open-ended language abilities
A hallmark of human language is our ability to produce and understand an infinite number of different sentences. This unique open-ended productivity is normally explained in terms of "structural reuse"; sentences are constructed ...
Jan 26, 2017
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Researchers find gene that increases rate of maternal aneuploidy
(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers at Stanford University has found a gene that increases the rate of maternal aneuploidy in embryos. In their paper published in the journal Science, the team describes how they used ...
Neuroscience
White matter imaging provides insight into human and chimpanzee aging
(Medical Xpress)—The instability of "white matter" in humans may contribute to greater cognitive decline during the aging of humans compared with chimpanzees, scientists from Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory ...
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