Immense progress has been made over many years of archaeology and study into human evolution, and exciting new information ...

A sweeping new genetic analysis suggests that humans living in southern Africa spent roughly 100,000 years in isolation, long ...

Scientists at Radboud University say the universe will fade out far sooner than once believed, not in 10¹¹⁰⁰ years, but in ...

When Meenu Hodiwalla gave birth to her son almost three decades ago, she imagined the early days unfolding like they do for most new parents - tiny fingers curling around hers, the baby's eyes ...

Many psychiatric disorders share symptoms and most people who receive a psychiatric diagnosis will be diagnosed with more ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations ...

Archaeologists found 115,000-year-old human footprints where they shouldn't be—and they just might rewrite the history of ...

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

In one of the largest African ancient-DNA studies to date, geneticists from Uppsala University, Sweden, and an archaeologist ...

A new study uses sibling genetics to compare monogamy across species. Humans score higher than expected and sit close to ...

Tiny repeated stretches of DNA in your genome may quietly shape how your body works, how your brain develops and how you ...