Genetic and anatomical data reveal how the human pelvis acquired its unique shape, enabling our ancestors to walk on two legs.
Lankan scientist Dr Gayani Senevirathne has played a key role in a Harvard University study that has uncovered the genetic changes which enabled humans to walk on two legs – a discovery described as a turning point in understanding human evolution.
Genetic and anatomical data reveal how the human pelvis acquired its unique shape, enabling our ancestors to walk on two legs.
Analyses of pelvis development in humans and other primates reveal how changes in bone-patterning processes helped humans to gain the ability to walk upright.
A new study reveals some of the crucial molecular steps on the path to bipedalism.
A new study shows how natural selection for locomotion reshaped both extremities.
Coverage of Richard and Capellini (2021): "Shifting epigenetic contexts influence regulatory variation and disease risk".
Shortness, reduced mobility and sore joints may not come to mind when you think of survival of the fittest. But human evolution could suggest otherwise.
In a new study, David Kingsley, Terence Capellini and colleagues combine elegant transgenic experiments in mice with population genetic analyses in humans to identify a GDF5 enhancer that harbors a strong candidate causal SNP under positive selection.
