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Modern humans, Neanderthals, and other recent relatives on our human family tree evolved bigger brains much more rapidly than earlier species, a new study of human brain evolution has found.

Investigative genetic genealogy is a tool in which modern investigators build family trees using crime-scene DNA that has been entered into databases.

With the study also comes a new reconstruction of the evolutionary family tree for pterosaurs.

Genealogist Bill Lawson, who has traced the family tree of Mary Anne MacLeod back to the early 19th Century, says her father Malcolm ran a post office and small shop in his later years.

Then, in 2022, she received a notification - a full sibling had joined her family tree.