In what is now Shandong, eastern China, researchers have discovered one of the oldest matrilineal societies known to science, ...

New research into the genetics of Anopheles funestus (An. funestus), one of the most neglected but prolific malaria-transmitting mosquitoes in Africa, has revealed how this species is evolving in ...

Are humans evolving more through culture than DNA? A new study explores how medicine, technology, and institutions may guide ...

The rate that our heart or liver ages may differ from that of our immune or hormonal systems, and now it seems that a single ...

According to a recent international study, fragments of ancient viral DNA once considered "junk" may in fact play a role in regulating our genes. Using an innovative method to trace the ...

An. funestus is one of the most widespread mosquito species in Africa, with the females attracted to humans as a source of ...

It was ruthlessly hunted to extinction by humans over 300 years ago. But scientists are one step closer to bringing the dodo ...

How did digits evolve? While it is clear that they derive from genetic programs already present in fish, their precise origin ...

A moss hunter was searching in Wolf Creek near Swamp Mountain in Linn County on July 24, 1976, when they stumbled upon a skull, police said, adding that the hunter contacted the Linn County Sheriff’s ...

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

A new study suggests culture is reshaping human evolution faster than DNA, redefining how our species adapts, survives, and ...

A popular museum in Atlanta is expanding at a critical moment in the United States. And unlike the Smithsonian Institution, the privately funded National Center for Civil and Human Rights is beyond ...