On remote islands of Papua New Guinea, people carry a story that ties us all back to our deepest roots. Although their ...

Recent discoveries in Colombia have unveiled a previously unknown human DNA lineage in ancient remains, offering fascinating ...

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

Recent groundbreaking research into ape genomes has uncovered mysterious non-human DNA structures that challenge our ...

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

Where did humans come from, and what makes us unique? Discover the remarkable origins of Homo sapiens ... Thanks to groundbreaking fossil evidence, and advances in DNA science, we are able to picture ...

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

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

Thousands of years ago, groups of ancient people made the dangerous journey across the icy land bridge of the Bering Strait into the Americas. They carried tools, traditions, and survival skills with ...

The world's oldest evidence for purposeful human mummification comes from Southeast Asia, where people smoke-dried their ancestors' corpses 10,000 years ago.

Scientists have deciphered the genome of the bacterium behind the world's first recorded pandemic that swept through the eastern Mediterranean about 1,500 years ago. At such a critical moment in US ...

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