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How Did Hands Evolve? Look to Your Anus, a New Study Suggests.
The evolutionary blueprint for hands was borrowed in part from a much older genetic plan for our nether regions, a new study suggests.
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Uncovering the Genes That Let Our Ancestors Walk Upright
A new study reveals some of the crucial molecular steps on the path to bipedalism.
A comparison of skeletons from “Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature,” by Thomas Henry Huxley, 1863.