Humans Ran Into Evolution
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Walking upright has long been accepted as one of the fundamental abilities that separated early human ancestors apart from their ape cousins.
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Humans were born to run and evolved from ape-like creatures into the way they look today probably because of the need to cover long distances and compete for food, scientists said on Wednesday.
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When it comes to DNA, a human is closer to a chimpanzee than a mouse is to a rat. Yet tiny differences sprinkled throughout the genome have made all the difference, giving humans agriculture, language, art, music, technology and philosophy -- all the achievements that make us profoundly different. Until recently, there was no way to unravel these crucial differences, but that's rapidly changing.
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Humans went into evolutionary overdrive as their brains developed, sending them on a path that set them apart from other animals, scientists believe.
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According to Kenyon and Bromley&#39;s simulation, such an encounter took place more than 4 billion years ago - 100-200 million years after the Sun&#39;s birth.
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A University of Chicago study sheds light on why intelligence in humans evolved more rapidly than in other animals. &#39;Humans evolved their cognitive abilities not due to a few accidental mutations, but rather
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A group of researchers has re-created with remarkable accuracy part of the genome of the common ancestor of all placental mammals, a small shrew-like creature that prowled the forests of what is now Asia more than 80 million years ago.
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It may be hard to believe in these days of driving the SUV to the corner store, but people are actually pretty fast on their feet, and endurance running may have played an important role in human evolution.
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MODERN human beings may have wiped out two species of our closest relatives 25,000 years ago, possibly deliberately. The new research, by scientists at the University of Utah, raises the possibility that we
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US researchers say humans began endurance running about 2 million years ago to help hunt for prey.
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Scientists have pinpointed mutations in an ancient protein that transformed its shape and function more than 400 million years ago.
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Scientists in Australia have found a new  species of hobbit-sized humans who lived about 18,000 years ago  on an Indonesian island in a discovery that adds another piece  to the complex puzzle of human evolution.
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Constantly wearing a portable music player, such as an iPod, may be the next stage in evolution for some members of our species. But Mother Nature apparently does not approve.
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A group of scientists wants to revise Darwin's theory of evolution to better explain jumps in biological complexity, like that from single-celled to multicellular organisms.
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Evolutionary experiments on microbes are under way in many laboratories and scientists can observer bacteria adapt over 40,000 generations of living in a beaker.
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A Pacific island butterfly makes a comeback, in one of the fastest evolutionary changes ever observed.
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Genes that control the size and complexity of the brain have undergone much more rapid evolution in humans than in non-human primates or other mammals, according to a new study by Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers.