New research reveals how human DNA preserves the story of language contact, showing when and where languages converged, diverged, and evolved.

Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to ...

Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series debuting Wednesday on PBS.

Scientists have decoded the world’s oldest human DNA sequence, beating the previous record by almost 300,000 years, and at the same time confusing what we know of our early relatives. Published in ...

Malaria is one of the world's most widespread and deadliest parasitic diseases. But some people may have natural protection ...

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

Chimpanzees, along with bonobos, are humans' closest living relatives. In fact, you may have heard that humans and chimps share 98.8% of their DNA. But is this actually true? And what does "similar ...

While most people think of fossils and artifacts as the most important lines of evidence for understanding the past, genetic evidence also plays a major role. In this webinar, Miguel Vilar, Genetic ...

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

Philistines were very likely of Greek origin, as a new DNA study traces the origins of the ancient villains in the Eastern ...