The orangutan genome has been sequenced by an international research project including scientists from Catalonia. In an article published in Nature, the researchers say there is a 97% genetic overlap between the orangutan and the human genomes

STAFF | JANUARY 28th, 2011

The analysis of the genome of an extinct hominid in Siberia and the morphology of a tooth of another individual now suggest that this is a new hominid population different from the Neanderthals and Homo sapiens

STAFF | DECEMBER 23RD, 2010

Researchers at Barcelona’s Evolutionary Biology Institute have sequenced the DNA of fossils from the archaeological site of El Sidrón in northern Spain to study the family relationships of Neanderthals. Researchers have discovered that Neanderthal females abandoned the group when they were old enough to reproduce and that there were exchanges of partners to avoid inbreeding

STAFF | DECEMBER 21ST, 2010

Researchers at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology in Barcelona participated in a study that reveals through the analysis of various archaeological sites and ancient Nordic tales that the Vikings set foot on American soil centuries before the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492.

STAFF | NOVEMBER 16TH, 2010