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

New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

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 ...

Scientists discovered that the first 100 base pairs of human genes are unusually prone to mutations, especially during the ...

Shared genes found in golden retrievers and people influence traits like fear, trainability, and emotional sensitivity.

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

People and pups may be more genetically similar than widely believed. In A Nutshell A gene linked to dog aggression is also ...

In one of the largest African hunter-gatherer ancient-DNA studies to date, population geneticists from Uppsala University in Sweden, and a cognitive ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...