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Finding a gene helps people adapt to new foods
Medicine - Health

Finding a gene helps people adapt to new foods

Scientists have recently shown that a gene that helps our ancestors adapt to new foods such as strange plants and animals when leaving Africa was 85,000 years ago.

December 15, 2018
DNA can outline the suspect's face
Medicine - Health

DNA can outline the suspect's face

A breakthrough in genetic research could pave the way for a new way of preventing crime: replicating the face of suspects only with DNA.

December 15, 2018
Full moon makes people difficult to sleep
Medicine - Health

Full moon makes people difficult to sleep

Dr. Silvia Frey's study at the University of Basel in Switzerland and colleagues published in the journal Current Biology found that people sleep less when the moon is f…

December 14, 2018
See future eyes as big as plates
Medicine - Health

See future eyes as big as plates

Today, the human brain is three times the size of our first ancestors. Because the brain grows, our head is bigger, the skull is enlarged and our lines become flatter.

December 14, 2018
Sexual revolution of human ancestors
Medicine - Health

Sexual revolution of human ancestors

Herd activity is a popular way of living among the communities during the primitive period. But after some time, our ancestors began to switch to one-wife-one-husband ma…

December 14, 2018
Europeans used to have dark skin
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Europeans used to have dark skin

The white color of Europeans may have appeared about 5,500 years ago thanks to a change in eating habits.

December 14, 2018
People with blue eyes may have the same ancestors
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People with blue eyes may have the same ancestors

A group of scientists tracking genetic variations that led to blue eyes concluded the variation occurred between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago. So before this time humans h…

December 14, 2018