Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long ...

“The question of where we come from is one that has fascinated humans for centuries,” said Dr. Trevor Cousins, a Cambridge University researcher. Such thousands of years of curiosity have now been ...

Micronutrients, vitamins and minerals that are part of the human diet in small amounts, may have influenced human evolution ...

How do cells know what they should become as the body develops? Biological development depends crucially on spatial patterns: ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

New analysis of a 140,000-year-old skull morphologically resembling modern humans and Neanderthals may be the earliest ...

New research suggests that the evolution of the human brain may explain why autism is more common in humans than in other ...