A groundbreaking new documentary series titled Human is set to bring the ancient past of our evolutionary relatives to life ...

In a stunning new study, geneticists in Japan have revealed how injecting a 40,000-year-old Neanderthal gene into mice has led to profound changes in their skeletal structure. This experiment, ...

For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to ...

Screen-centric lifestyles may be influencing human evolution through impacts on cognition, sleep, reproduction, and the microbiome, reshaping natural selection.

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Images released ahead of a new BBC science series depict Homo floresiensis, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis plus the ...

Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...

Researchers determined that a skull of a female child from Skhūl Cave in Israel shows both Homo sapiens and Neanderthal ...

PROTEUS, a system designed to harness “directed evolution,” can speed the process up by years, or even decades.

Proteins degrade over time, making their history hard to study. But new research has uncovered ancient proteins in the enamel ...