How can the study of human evolution contribute to our understanding of human health and disease?

Dec 11, 2022 ... When and where did human speech evolve? Research carried out for this study indicates that the first speech sounds were uttered about 70,000 ... Humans did not evolve from monkeys. · Since the earliest hominid species diverged from the ancestor we share with modern African apes, 5 to 8 million years ago, ... Feb 1, 2023 ... our immediate H. sapiens ancestors lived across the African continent. People were diverse physically, genetically, and culturally—from the very ... Apr 21, 2017 ... Researchers who studied the bones of Homo floresiensis, a species of tiny human discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003, say their ... The earliest evidence of what we might call persistent carnivory —part of the intensification and expansion of meat-eating—comes from Kanjera South, a research ... Nov 29, 2018 ... After studying the birds' DNA, researchers believe it may be impossible to separate barn swallows' evolution from the human landscape in which they evolved. Mar 5, 2020 ... How Did Humans Evolve? The story of human origins is complicated since our ancestors swapped genes (and probably skills). ... How Did Humans ... Aug 25, 2009 ... Independent evolution of knuckle-walking in African apes shows that humans did not evolve from a knuckle-walking ancestor. Proc Natl Acad Sci ... Jun 3, 2019 ... The bedbugs that parasitize humans [1, 8] are host generalists, so their evolution from specialist ancestors is incompatible with the “resource ... Aug 30, 2020 ... According to the "cultural brain hypothesis," humans evolved large brains and great intelligence in order to keep up with our complex social ...