Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed ...

Scientists in Colombia have discovered a previously unknown lineage of human beings after fully sequencing the DNA of ancient ...

Roughly 10,000 years ago, humans started shifting from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to building large agricultural ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...

An aging expert thinks humans can live for 20,000 years—and he might not be crazy. There's one major key to unlocking extreme ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as “junk,” thought to serve no real purpose. In a new study in Cell ...

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our ...

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...

A research team at Kyoto University has discovered STAG3-cohesin, a new mitotic cohesin complex that helps establish the ...

Scientists have discovered that a gene called MUC19, inherited from Denisovans through ancient interbreeding, may have played ...

Modern humans are evolutionary survivors, thriving generation after generation while our ancient relatives died out.

The Skhul child fossil, about 140,000 years old, combines human-like and Neanderthal-like traits in the skull, jaw, and inner ...