Our ancestors acquired morphological, cognitive and metabolic modifications that enabled
humans to colonize diverse habitats, develop extraordinary technologies and reshape the …

An enduring goal of evolutionary biology is to understand how natural selection has shaped
patterns of polymorphism and divergence within and between species and to map the …

This review broadly summarizes how molecular biology has contributed to our
understanding of human evolution. Molecular anthropology began in the 1960s with …

State-of-the-art DNA sequencing is providing ever more detailed insights into the genomes
of humans, extant apes, and even extinct hominins (–), offering unprecedented opportunities …

Primate genomics holds the key to understanding fundamental aspects of human evolution
and disease. However, genetic diversity and functional genomics data sets are currently …

The past several years have witnessed an explosion of successful ancient human genome-
sequencing projects, with genomic-scale ancient DNA data sets now available for more than …

Throughout the past decade, studying ancient genomes has provided unique insights into
human prehistory, and differences between modern humans and other branches like …

There are numerous anthropological analyses concerning the importance of diet during
human evolution. Diet is thought to have had a profound influence on the human phenotype …

Research into when and where modern humans originated and how they differ from, and
interacted with, other now-extinct forms of human has so far been the realm of …

INTRODUCTION Understanding the genetic differences that make us human is a long-
standing endeavor that requires the comprehensive discovery and comparison of all forms …