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Study finds how ancient viral genes helps brain to fight against new infec
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], September 27 (ANI): The impact of viruses on our daily lives, from the common cold to COVID-19, is enormous, but infections that took place millions of years ago have had a profound impact on the course of human evolution. This is due to the viral genes' incorporation into the
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Exposing the evolutionary weak spots of the human genome: Research
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 27 (ANI): Mutations can drastically help or hurt the odds of an organism surviving and reproducing. Researchers have created a computer program called ExtRaINSIGHT that tracks the history of harmful mutations throughout human evolution. They've discovered several r
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Study: Genetic variation within and between species to affect animal menta
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], August 5 (ANI): Our cognitive and emotional processes depend heavily on monoamine neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine. Their evolutionary ancestors were metazoans, and while related genes' functions have remained mostly unchanged over time, genetic variation within a
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Study: Enhanced look at intertwined evolutionary histories of polar and br
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 10 (ANI): A new study by the University at Buffalo provides an enhanced look at the intertwined evolutionary histories of polar bears and brown bears.
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Evolution may be to blame for high risk of advanced cancers in humans
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 9 (ANI): Compared to chimpanzees, humans are particularly prone to developing advanced carcinomas -- the type of tumors that include prostate, breast, lung and colorectal cancers -- even in the absence of known risk factors, such as genetic predisposition or tobacco
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Back pain in adults may be due to human evolution, spine shape
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Burnaby [Canada], Mar 6 (ANI): The reason why a lot of adults experience back pain might not have anything to do with their physical health but with the evolutionary past of humans, suggests a study.
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Adaptations in gut microbes helped our ancestors thrive in new geographica
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 22 (ANI): The adaptations which took place in the human gut microbes (microbiome) over several millennia might have helped our ancestors to spread out and thrive in new geographical territories around the world.
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Changes in gut bacteria helped human ancestors to survive in new geographi
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 19 (ANI): A new study has suggested that adaptive changes in the microbes inhabiting the human gut (gut microbiome) might be one of the factors responsible for human evolution, allowing our ancestors to survive in new geographic areas and spread around the world.
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