The influence of an unknown population and its impact on intelligence was discovered in our DNA by researchers using a new ...

There's no question that humans have left an indelible mark on the world, but we're also inadvertently steering the evolution ...

Before hominins intentionally chipped stone to make tools, they likely used sharp rocks already shaped by natural forces.

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources. But how did the production of stone tools -- called 'knapping' -- start?

The global average for countries to report genetic information about bird flu, crucial to tracking and preventing a human ...

Engineers have derived potent new antibiotics from a frog's secretions. The new molecules demonstrated capabilities on par with existing last-resort antibiotics, without harming human cells or ...

Georgia Tech scientists are revealing how decades-long research programs have transformed our understanding of evolution, ...

Scientists have made a surprising discovery about our ancient past: modern humans didn’t come from just one ancestral group, ...

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

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

A deep-rooted population structure emerged, suggesting modern humans, Homo sapiens, are the result of a population that split ...

Languages: English. A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and ...