A landmark Nature study analyzing nearly 16,000 ancient and modern genomes from West Eurasia reveals that natural selection has intensified over the past 10,000 years. Researchers identified 479 gene ...

A skull fragment discovered over fifty years ago on the banks of the Elbe River in Germany has finally yielded its secrets. Long considered by some researchers to be a rare Neanderthal-modern human ...

Research into human genomic diversity has a number of applications in biomedicine, evolution, and history. However, many ...

A growing number of discoveries are reshaping long-held ideas about human evolution, from unexpectedly early stone tools to ...

Evolution doesn't work that way. Our proteins evolve (granted, at a relatively glacial pace) to help us, not them. Bonus ...

Research suggests that crying is not a sign of weakness, but one of the most sophisticated social technologies in the natural ...

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...

Scientists have finally come face-to-face with an ancient human ancestor called Little Foot. A new digital reconstruction reveals the visage of one of our oldest close human relatives, researchers ...

Around 2% of modern humans carry Neanderthal DNA, meaning we know early humans got super intimate with our now-extinct relatives. According to new research, when Neanderthals and humans did hit it off ...

Playing a complex guitar solo ought to be impossible. To elicit the desired torrent of notes, the fingers of one hand must move nimbly around the fretboard, while the other hand plucks the strings, in ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary ...

If we’re really going to the dogs, that may not be such a bad thing. Dr. Brian Hare, a professor of evolutionary anthropology and psychology at Duke University, delighted audiences with what we can ...