A new review highlights how human evolution has shaped the presence of pathogenic variations in DNA damage repair (DDR) genes, offering a new perspective on why modern populations face increased ...

A sweeping look at ancient DNA reveals hundreds of changes over thousands of years, offering clues about how modern traits developed and why some remain today. The research, published in Nature, ...

Malaria may have shaped early human life across Africa far earlier than once thought, steering where people could safely live ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

A new study of wrist bones suggests human ancestors may have shared a knuckle-walking past with chimpanzees and gorillas.

Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains, Siberia is where the first evidence of Denisovans was found. (rusak/iStock/Getty Images Plus) The hominin family tree is more like a complicated, tangled bramble.

A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations throughout their evolution. Ana Mateos and Jesús Rodríguez, scientists at the ...

A composite view of the Earth constructed by NASA from multiple satellite images Editor at Large Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and ...

A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in West Africa is challenging long-held assumptions about early human adaptability and migration. Evidence from a site in Côte d'Ivoire reveals that Homo ...

Share on Pinterest Human brain cell evolution may be linked to autism, neurodiversity, according to a new study. Image credit: Lauren Lee/Stocksy A new study concludes that the speed at which the ...