Molecular alternatives to DNA, RNA offer new insight into life's origins

published April 23, 2012

Certain molecules are known to be responsible for the existence and evolution of living systems, but are there other molecules at play as well?

Bee society

published March 16, 2012

Profile of Robert Page.

Cultural changes key to Neanderthal demise

published February 23, 2012

Researchers suggest that Neanderthals didn't go "extinct" because they were unfit for their environment. They may have been so successful that they became hybridized with early humans.

Neanderthals: victims of their own success?

published December 1, 2011

Researchers shed new light on the long-debated extinction of Neanderthals and the cultural and biological evolution of hominin groups during the last Ice Age.

Becoming human

published November 8, 2011

Who are we, and how did we get here? Scientists at the Institute of Human Origins have been asking these questions for 30 years.

Untangling the human family tree one branch at a time

published September 26, 2011

CT scans of fossil skulls may help researchers settle a classic puzzle about the evolution of Africa’s Australopithecus, a key ancestor of modern humans.

A bite of the past

published April 1, 2011

Profile of Gary Schwartz.

How the seahorse got its shape

published April 7, 2011

Lara Perry looks into the factors that contributed to one of the most oddly-shaped creatures on Earth -- the seahorse.

Human uniqueness linked to hunter-gatherer group structure

published March 14, 2011

The composition of human ancestral groups promotes cooperation among large groups of non-kin, something extremely rare in nature.

Book explores human-technology co-evolution

published February 28, 2011

As technology progresses, two ASU professors explore the possibility of humans and gadgets becoming completely fused.

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