Who was the last common ancestor of Neanderthals and us modern humans? The last common ancestor of both the Homo sapiens and ...

Researchers found LUCA, our earliest common ancestor, lived 4.2 billion years ago. It had a complex biology, affecting its ...

Recent research led by the University of Bristol has made waves by pushing back the timeline of Earth’s earliest life form by ...

Meet some of the people featured in the March 2014 issue of The Scientist. A series of rodent experiments showed that even with abundant food and water, personal space is essential to prevent societal ...

Philipp Gunz, License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 While closely related, Neanderthals and modern humans split from our last common ancestor between 650,000 and 500,000 years ago and evolved into distinct ...

2003). The similarities between the living African apes were thought to have been inherited from a common ancestor (=primitive features), implying that the earliest hominins and our last common ...

But does this imply that the groups' last common ancestor also used these venoms? No, it does not, and here's why: It turns out that venomous snakes and the platypus have different duplications of ...

But in the last decade, these studies have intensified ... These new tools reveal that different descendants of a common ancestor do indeed usually go through embryonic stages that resemble ...