When a baby does not make it to term, an irregular number of chromosomes in the embryo is often the root cause. The phenomenon, known as aneuploidy, is surprisingly common: it can be detected in roughly three-quarters of human embryos … Continue reading
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Journal Club: Newly found mutation contributes to irregular chromosome number, a major cause of pregnancy loss
Categories: Evolution | Genetics | Journal Club | Reproductive biology
Tagged aneuploidy, chromosome, embryo, fertility, human evolution, in vitro fertilization, natural selection, pregnancy
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Journal Club: Age of ‘Little Foot’ provides twist in story of hominid evolution
An early hominid named Little Foot has been dated to 3.67 million years old, making the timeline of human evolution even more complicated. Little Foot was found in a cave at Sterkfontein in South Africa, an hour’s drive from Johannesburg … Continue reading
Categories: Anthropology | Evolution | Journal Club
Tagged fossil, hominid, human evolution, isochron burial dating
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Journal Club: High-throughput sequencing transforms the study of human evolution
In the last five years, great strides have been made in the field of human evolution, such as the sequencing of the Neanderthal genome that revealed that modern humans and Neanderthals interbred, and the discovery of an extinct branch of … Continue reading
Categories: Anthropology | Evolution | Genetics | Journal Club
Tagged genetics, human evolution, Journal Club
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