Running 'key to human evolution'
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Long-distance running may have been a driving force behind evolution of the modern human body, scientists say.
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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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More than by brain size or tool-making ability, the human species was set apart from its ancestors by the ability to jog mile after lung-stabbing mile with greater endurance than any other primate, according to research published today in the journal
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George Church wants to sequence your genome.
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EVOLUTION is a process that most of us associate with a geological time scale -- the slow elucidation of life over the last 3.5 billion years. We also tend to assume that the most recent signs of continuing evolution must be happening in species with short life spans and rapid reproductive rates.
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DNA is aiding fossil hunters in the search for human origins by approaching the search for human origins from a different angle.
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By Lee Bowman. The ability to run long distances across the African savannah gave human ancestors an evolutionary advantage over other primates that walked upright, but could not run the mile or 20, researchers argue in a new study.
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If walking upright first set early human ancestors apart from their ape cousins, it may have been their eventual ability to run long distances with a springing step over the African savanna
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Humans evolved from ape-like ancestors because they needed to run long distances - perhaps to hunt animals or scavenge carcasses on Africaâs vast savannah â-nd the ability to run shaped our anatomy, making us look like we do today.
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Why did humans evolve to walk upright? Perhaps because it's just plain easier. Make that "energetically less costly," in science-speak, and you have the conclusion of researchers who are proposing a likely reason for our modern gait.
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The ability of early human ancestors to run long distances may have influenced the transition to today's body form, researchers report.
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Scientists plan to map the DNA of 1,000 people worldwide to examine human genetic variation
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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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A major study of fossils by US scientists has concluded that evolution has sculpted our bodies into finely-tuned distance-running machines.
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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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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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There are growing calls among some evolutionary biologists for an upgrade to Darwin, although they differ about what form this might take.