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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...