Human gland evolved from gills
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The human parathyroid gland, which regulates calcium levels, probably evolved from fish gills, say researchers.
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By Gosling, Samuel D Graybeal, Anna  ABSTRACT. Over the past 15 years, several important theoretical and methodological developments have emerged from evolutionary biology.
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We are born to run. According to new research, our bodies are highly evolved for running long distances, an ability that allowed our ancestors to conquer the African savannahs.
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The scientific world has just been given an amazing new insight into the complexities of human evolution. A team of Indonesian and Australian scientists has discovered fossils of a new human
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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 colonized the rest of the planet.
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Even for healthy people, swimming can lead to an accumulation of fluid in the lungs, called pulmonary edema.
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Ancient fish could bite a shark in two  Sharks were not always the top predators in the ocean.
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The sophistication of the human brain is not simply the result of steady evolution, according to new research. Instead, humans are truly privileged animals with brains that have developed in a type of extraordinarily
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The story of modern humansâ final interactions with the extinct Homo erectus may have been revealed by research into the evolution of lice.
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Description: Scientists discover fossils of a new species of early human on the Indonesian island of Flores. Like the Neanderthals, it is an alternate human line that disappeared.
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A genetic study sheds light on the mystery of how fish made the move from water to land millions of years ago.
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A battle won by human ancestors against a virus that infected chimpanzees and other primates millions of years ago may have left people today more vulnerable to the AIDS virus, scientists said on Thursday.
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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.
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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.
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The evolution of a physique for long-distance running is what made humans look the way we do now. The crucial role of running in human evolution, overlooked in previous research, is being proposed in an article
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Scientists discover what could be cardiac master cells capable of becoming different tissues in the heart.
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Modern humans appeared 50,000 years ago, but genetic drift and natural selection have recently remolded the human clay.