Conserved genome regulatory elements found in both vertebrates and echinoderms

The conservation of genome regulatory elements over long periods of evolution is not limited to vertebrates, as previously ...

Deep Sulawesi cave dig could reveal overlap between extinct humans and us

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian ...

A childhood trip to Cannon Beach launched this Harvard student’s quest to help decipher evolution

Flash forward 10 years and Sivakumar had become an integrative biology major paid to conduct groundbreaking research into how ...

Fossils found in cave shed light on where our species emerged, traced to when Earth's magnetic field flipped

Fossilized bones and teeth dating to 773,000 years ago are providing a deeper understanding of the emergence of Homo sapiens.