A good portion of human DNA is what scientists refer to as "junk" -- stuff left over from ancient viruses and such. But maybe ...

The discovery of a new fossil has once again turned our understanding of human evolution on its head. This monumental find ...

Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the biggest mysteries is understanding how large or small ancient human ...

The team's method relied on analysing modern human DNA, rather than extracting genetic material from ancient bones, and enabled them to infer the presence of ancestral populations that may have ...

A study led by Dr. LI Chuanyun from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has revealed how recently evolved human-specific genes—critical ...

Neanderthals still shared the Earth with our ancestors. Recent discoveries are challenging our linear view of human evolution ...

For the last two decades, the prevailing view in human evolutionary genetics has been that Homo sapiens first appeared in Africa around 200,000 to 300,000 years ago, and descended from a single ...

Human and chimpanzee brain comparison. [Andipantz/Getty Images] Noonan’s lab is focused on understanding how HARs contribute to the evolution of uniquely human brain features.

Noonan’s lab is focused on understanding how HAR s contribute to the evolution of uniquely human brain features. In previous work the team has shown that some HAR s alter gene expression in ...

Human evolution FAQs Pictures Human evolution Quick facts about human evolution Oldest discovered Homo sapiens skeletons: 315,000 years old Where these early fossils were found: Jebel Irhoud, Morocco ...

Human height, for instance, is estimated to be influenced by more than 100,000 positions. Each individual gene involved in a polygenic trait may exert only a small influence on that trait.