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Frequent burn exposure may have driven human genetic adaptations that improve healing but worsen severe injury outcomes.

Sometimes in nature, only the friendliest survive, according to Brian Hare, a professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University and the director of the Duke Canine Cognition Center. The UA ...

Scientists have uncovered new evidence suggesting that autism may have it roots in how the human brain has evolved. "Our results suggest that some of the same genetic changes that make the human brain ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts—from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain—have been assembled in fits and starts over the 4 billion years of our ...

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