Resistance to malaria. Blue eyes. Lactose tolerance. What do all of these traits have in
common? Every one of them has emerged in the last 10,000 years. Scientists have long …

Lactose is the main carbohydrate in human and mammalian milk. Lactose requires
enzymatic hydrolysis by lactase into D-glucose and D-galactose before it can be absorbed …

Observations about the number, frequency, effect size, and genomic distribution of alleles
associated with complex traits must be interpreted in light of evolutionary process. These …

Comparison is fundamental to evolutionary anthropology. When scientists study
chimpanzee cognition, for example, they compare chimp performance on cognitive tasks to …

Человеческий язык—уникальная система общения, которая есть только у Homo
sapiens. Почему и, главное, зачем мы научились разговаривать? Почему любой из нас …

Genome-wide patterns of variation across individuals provide a powerful source of data for
uncovering the history of migration, range expansion, and adaptation of the human species …

Most people are born with the ability to digest lactose, the major carbohydrate in milk and
the main source of nutrition until weaning. Approximately 75% of the world's population …

The fundamental shift associated with the domestication of plants and animals allowed for a
dramatic increase in human population sizes and the emergence of modern society. Despite …

The Artful Species explores the idea that our aesthetic responses and art behaviors are
connected to our evolved human nature. Our humanoid forerunners displayed aesthetic …

The history of click-speaking Khoe-San, and African populations in general, remains poorly
understood. We genotyped∼ 2.3 million single-nucleotide polymorphisms in 220 southern …