It's tempting to think that we've reached the pinnacle of our evolution, but modern life continues to shape us just as much ...

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

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

Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia.

Analysis - New genetic research is shedding light on some of the earliest chapters of our human history. In one of the largest studies of its kind, scientists analysed DNA from 28 individuals who ...

Research shows synthetic chromosomes can be transferred to human cells with potential to improve viral resistance ...

Evo’s success wasn’t limited to proteins. When they tested a different toxin that had an RNA-based inhibitor, the system ...

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

Africa has the greatest human genetic diversity and the hunter-gatherers of southern Africa represent some of the oldest known genetic lineages. They can therefore reveal more about where and when we ...

Project Psyche has sequenced 1,000 butterfly and moth genomes, providing unprecedented tools for studying evolution, ...

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

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