The Synthetic Human Genome, or Syn HG, a project launched on June 26th, aims to change that. Funded partly by Wellcome, a ...

When it comes to closest living relatives in the animal kingdom, chimpanzees and bonobos top the list. They share a common ancestor and over 98% of our DNA. Both species belong to the genus Pan.

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

The first mice to be created from two fathers, a phenomenon known as androgenesis, have now produced healthy offspring for ...

Repeating that something is “settled science” does not make it or its materialistic conclusions so.

“The diploid alignment was even more dramatically divergent, showing a difference of 16.11% between humans and chimps. When sex chromosomes were analyzed, chimpanzee X chromosomes were over 20% ...

Human-accelerated regions (HARs) in chromosomes help human neurons grow multiple neurites. When HARs were added to artificial chimpanzee neurons, as seen on the right, they grew extra neurites, ...

The human and chimpanzee genomes are 99% similar. HARs make up a big portion of the 1% difference, which can lead to dramatically different outcomes in human and chimp neurons in petri dishes.

Human and chimpanzee brain comparison. [Andipantz/Getty Images] Noonan’s lab is focused on understanding how HARs contribute to the evolution of uniquely human brain features.

Humans and chimpanzees share about 98% of their overall DNA, but only between 14% and 27% of Y chromosome sequences are common. This surprising divergence, given the 7 million years since their ...