Genetic Study of Lice Hints At Clash of Archaic Humans
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Scientists unraveling the genetic history of head lice have found startling evidence that early humans mingled with a clan of hairy, distant cousins as recently as 25,000 years ago in Asia -- a
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The genetic blueprint of a parasite that causes disfiguring elephantiasis has been unravelled.
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Scientists reconstruct part of the genetic code of a 75-million-year-old mammal ancestor.
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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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Why do we gossip? Evolution may hold some surprising answers.
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Modern humans appeared 50,000 years ago, but genetic drift and natural selection have recently remolded the human clay.
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Researchers analyzing variation in the human genome have concluded that human evolution accelerated enormously in the last 40,000 years under the force of natural selection.
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Archaeologists have unearthed evidence of a species of dwarf people, dubbed Homo floresiensis.
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DENVER: In an astonishing discovery that could rewrite the history of human evolution, scientists say they have found the skeleton of a new human species - a dwarf, marooned for eons in a tropical lost world, while modern man rapidly colonised the rest
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In the continuing debate over the origin of the extinct âlittle peopleâ of Indonesia, a team of scientists says it has found evidence that these people were members of a distinct species.
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Some of the head lice infesting people today were spread to us thousands of years ago by an extinct species of humans like Homo erectus.
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Lice genes have been a head-scratcher for experts in human origins who now suspect that we humans picked up some parasites from our more primitive ancestors.
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Archaeologists have unearthed evidence of a heretofore unknown species of dwarf people, dubbed Homo floresiensis.
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Genetic evidence suggests humans have moved into the evolutionary fast lane and are becoming increasing different.
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Humankind&#39;s inexorable spread across the globe may have had an unwelcome side-effect - it brought us face to face with our ancient hominid relatives just long enough to catch their head lice.
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A study of an ancient human pest -- head lice -- suggests that the ancestors of today's American Indians may have met and fought with pre-humans long extinct elsewhere, scientists said on Tuesday.
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They&#39;re tiny and pesky, but also hold secrets to our evolution: Head lice have shown researchers that an extinct species of early human had direct contact with modern-day man 25,000 years ago.