The time has come to reconsider an outdated understanding of human evolution: it was ...

A new Yale-led study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive analyses to date of genetic variation in human ...

The idea of a rapid human transformation, which supposedly turned our ancestors into modern beings around 50,000 years ago, ...

Ancient encounters between humans and the mysterious Denisovans are still shaping people today. By analyzing genomes from populations across the Pacific, researchers uncovered evidence that the ...

Scientists retrieved proteins from six teeth unearthed in China that reveal a potential link between Homo erectus and later ...

The evolutionary success of our species may have hinged on minute changes to our brain biochemistry after we diverged from the lineage leading to Neanderthals and Denisovans about half a million years ...

A review article now published in Nature Reviews Genetics brings together evolutionary theory, comparative genomics and large ...

It is generally accepted by archaeologists that modern humans originated in Africa and dispersed worldwide, while other ...

Human brain cell evolution may be linked to autism, neurodiversity, according to a new study. Image credit: Lauren Lee/Stocksy Although we humans like to think of ourselves as the pinnacle of ...