"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.
Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.
which allowed them to identify gene targets for nearly all HARs, which is a significant advance in the study of human evolution. The discovery adds to the growing understanding of how genetic ...
This much of your body is made up of human cells ... Feeling sick all the time while you're trying to nurture a growing baby might seem like a terrible mistake on evolution's part, but what ...
We all trace our origins to a common hominin ... of Cambridge has unveiled a strikingly unconventional pattern in human evolution. Researchers found that the rate of emergence of new species ...
Ian Randall is Newsweek's Deputy Science Editor, based in Royston, U.K. His focus is reporting on science and health. He has covered archeology, geology, and physics extensively. Ian joined ...
Charles Darwin's theory states that all organisms alive today evolved from more simple life forms. Two fossils named Ardi and Lucy provide evidence for human evolution. Both were found in Africa.
Meet 'Pink', the new face of human evolution in Europe Western Europe has a new oldest face: the facial bones of an adult nicknamed "Pink" discovered in Spain are from a potential new member of the ...