Fossil apes and human evolution

S Almécija, AS Hammond, NE Thompson, KD Pugh… - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND Ever since the writings of Darwin and Huxley, humans' place in nature
relative to apes (nonhuman hominoids) and the geographic origins of the human lineage …

Mitochondria and metabolic transitions in cardiomyocytes: lessons from development for stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes

JC Garbern, RT Lee - Stem cell research & therapy, 2021 - Springer
Current methods to differentiate cardiomyocytes from human pluripotent stem cells (PSCs)
inadequately recapitulate complete development and result in PSC-derived cardiomyocytes …

Structural basis for sugar perception by Drosophila gustatory receptors

D Ma, M Hu, X Yang, Q Liu, F Ye, W Cai, Y Wang, X Xu… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Insects rely on a family of seven transmembrane proteins called gustatory receptors (GRs) to
encode different taste modalities, such as sweet and bitter. We report structures of …

Natural language and natural selection

S Pinker, P Bloom - Behavioral and brain sciences, 1990 - cambridge.org
Many people have argued that the evolution of the human language faculty cannot be
explained by Darwinian natural selection. Chomsky and Gould have suggested that …

Probability distribution of molecular evolutionary trees: a new method of phylogenetic inference

B Rannala, Z Yang - Journal of molecular evolution, 1996 - Springer
A new method is presented for inferring evolutionary trees using nucleotide sequence data.
The birth-death process is used as a model of speciation and extinction to specify the prior …

Evaluation of the maximum likelihood estimate of the evolutionary tree topologies from DNA sequence data, and the branching order in Hominoidea

H Kishino, M Hasegawa - Journal of molecular evolution, 1989 - Springer
A maximum likelihood method for inferring evolutionary trees from DNA sequence data was
developed by Felsenstein (1981). In evaluating the extent to which the maximum likelihood …

[PDF][PDF] Mental time travel and the evolution of the human mind

T Suddendorf, MC Corballis - Genetic Social and General …, 1997 - bonobosworld.org
This article contains the argument that the human ability to travel mentally in time constitutes
a discontinuity between ourselves and other animals. Mental time travel comprises the …

[ΒΙΒΛΙΟ][B] Chimpanzee material culture: implications for human evolution

WC McGrew - 1992 - books.google.com
The chimpanzee of all other living species is our closest relation, with whom we last shared
a common ancestor about five million years ago. These African apes make and use a rich …

Estimate of the mutation rate per nucleotide in humans

MW Nachman, SL Crowell - Genetics, 2000 - academic.oup.com
Many previous estimates of the mutation rate in humans have relied on screens of visible
mutants. We investigated the rate and pattern of mutations at the nucleotide level by …

[PDF][PDF] Phylogenies from molecular sequences: inference and reliability

J Felsenstein - Annual review of genetics, 1988 - kevintshoemaker.github.io
Phylogenies from Molecular Sequences: Inference and Reliability Page 1 Ann". Rev. Genel.
1988. 22:521-65 CopyrighT © 1988 by Annual Reviews Inc. All righTs reserved PHYLOGENIES …