Increasing evidence suggests that our species emerged through interactions between populations living in different parts of ...

In 2001 scientists studying human language made a breakthrough: by looking at the DNA of a family with a rare speech ...

Teeth are like tiny biological time capsules. They tell stories about ancient diets and environments long after their owners ...

A new study testifies to how hominins at Gesher Benot Ya’akov took advantage of their environment to fuel fires, showing ...

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

Bones were exhumed and passed around to members of the community, who used the remains of their ancestors in a surprising ...

The site of Gesher Benot Ya’aqov (GBY), along the ancient shores of Lake Hula in northern Israel, represents an ...

Learn more about new research that analyzed 16,000 ancient genomes and discovered that natural selection hasn’t slowed down.

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

Read full article: 1 killed in deputy-involved shooting in Leesburg, officials say How exactly this happened remains a huge question mark. Did human women venture into Neanderthal populations, or were ...

NEW YORK — Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don’t know much about who got with whom, or why. A new genetic ...

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...