Many people hold the view that evolution in modern humans has come to a halt. But while modern medicine and technologies have changed the environment in which evolution operates, many scientists ...

Fossilized footprints in Saudi Arabia show human traffic on the cusp of a subsequent ice age. Like carbon dating, scientists use isotopes and context clues to calculate the approximate age of fossils.

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Human composting turns bodies into soil by speeding up “what happens on the forest floor,” according to Tom Harries, CEO of Earth Funeral, the human composting company the Muckenhoupt family ...

More recently, WES was performed using a completed Twist Bioscience Human Core Exome (Consensus CDS ... corpus callosum agenesis, perisylvian polymicrogyria, cerebellum hypoplasia, microcephaly, ...

Joubert Syndrome is a rare, autosomal recessive disorder that affects the cerebellum and brain stem ... families require is also provided. The Human Genome Project has revolutionized the health ...

For nearly 300 years, a family’s ancestral house in India's southern state of Kerala has been the stage for theyyam, an ancient folk ritual. Rooted in ancient tribal traditions, theyyam predates ...

An occipital stroke happens in the back of the brain. This lobe, or part of the brain, helps people to recognize what they see. That means strokes in the occipital lobe can cause vision changes, which ...