Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the ...

DNA sequences for the chimpanzee, orangutans and more will help scientists to determine what sets humans apart from other ...

The researchers managed to extract DNA from the teeth and bones from two of the burials. They found that as humans migrated ...

Scientists report adaptive divergence in cryptic color pattern is underlain by two distinct, complex chromosomal rearrangements, where millions of bases of DNA were flipped backwards and moved from ...

A new study from Cambridge genetic researchers is unraveling everything we thought we knew about human evolution.

A mobile DNA sequence could explain tail loss in ... will pave the way to a deeper and more refined understanding of human evolution in the context of apes, not by delivering definitive answers ...

Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of ...

A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

An INRS research team has identified a new family of enzymes that can make precise cuts in single-stranded DNA. A few years ...

The third confirmed location of extinct hominins known as Denisovans shows these human cousins adapted to an impressive range ...