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A new Yale-led study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive analyses to date of genetic variation in human ...

At the end of 1924, an anthropologist began chipping away rock around an old primate skull — and rewrote the story of human evolution. The diminutive skull — about the size of a coffee mug — clearly ...

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From pugs to Persian cats, human aesthetic preferences are driving a new wave of convergent evolution.