The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

Human evolution did not come to a halt after prehistoric times. New evidence suggests it may have picked up pace, reshaping ...

New clues about our earliest ancestors suggest they may have reached Eurasia sooner than scientists once thought. Fossils found in Romania hint that hominins left Africa nearly two million years ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Genetic information from the "Dragon Man" skull has linked the fossil, found in China, to the Denisovans. - Hebei GEO University ...

Are humans natural born runners? Here’s why evolutionary and anatomical evidence suggests running was more central to our ...

Ancient DNA reveals how farming accelerated human evolution, driving genetic changes over the past 10,000 years.

From epic poetry to game shows, from Stone Age axes to spaceflight, humans have the most complex cultures of any species on Earth. Since the time of Darwin, scientists have suspected that this culture ...

“For over a hundred years, it was hypothesized that our ancestors lived in grassland savannahs and that this major ecosystem change drove human evolution, including the origins of bipedalism and ...

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...