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Scientists have revealed a hidden chapter in human evolution, showing our origins trace back to the interbreeding of two ...

Kanzi the bonobo, who learned how to communicate with humans using symbols, has died at the age of 44. Raised and kept in ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

UCLA Health researchers say study findings uncover Huntington's disease mechanisms and pave new ways to develop treatments.

Cambridge University researchers have uncovered evidence that two distinct populations of ancient hominins, separated for ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.