There is something almost comforting about the old, schoolbook version of human origins. It had a single ancestral population ...
Prehistoric humans in Africa may have avoided areas infested with malaria-spreading mosquitoes, a new study suggests.
New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...
New research into Upper Paleolithic fossils from western Eurasia suggests that hybridization between ancient human groups was ...
A new study shows the virus could have doubled the frequency of genetic variants in a South African province if effective ...
Angela Pelster is well-recognized in the literary community for her work. On April 14, she published her collection of essays ...
Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution ...
A landmark DNA analysis has overturned the long-standing theory that modern humans arose from a single ancestral population ...
Much like the Trump’s administration’s undeclared war against Iran, the Republican Party and the members of the radical right ...
Craig Venter, the hard-charging San Diego biologist who co-led the sequencing of the human genome, leading to better ways to ...
Africa’s widening rift is thinning the crust and reshaping the land, helping preserve fossils that reveal new clues about ...
How do our genes determine our appearance and our susceptibility to disease? This question is central to biomedical research, ...