Two Distinct Groups Mated Over Hundreds and Thousands of Years to Give Us the Modern Humans Human evolution has always been a ...

A specific gene variant seen in people is likely one of many that contributed to the development of language in modern humans ...

In a groundbreaking achievement, an international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology has successfully sequenced the oldest known genomes of modern ... Cont ...

Scientists have identified a tiny genetic change—present in nearly all living humans but absent in our closest extinct ...

A human-specific NOVA1 gene variant may have influenced the emergence of spoken language. When introduced into mice, it ...

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Modern humans have a unique version of NOVA1 compared with other species, including our extinct human relatives, the Neanderthals and Denisovans. (Image credit: Arctic-Images via Getty Images ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, modern humans (Homo sapiens) migrating out of Africa interbred with Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) in the Middle East. As a consequence of this encounter ...

Earth's climate has changed throughout history for numerous reasons, but modern climate change is driven by human behavior.

Scientists have identified NOVA1, a unique human language gene that may have played a key role in the evolution of spoken ...