The familiar claim about humans evolving from apes leaves out an important part of the story. Fossils and DNA reveal a much ...

Where did Sapiens come from?When thinking about human evolution, for a long time I imagined something like a single ...

Researchers at the prestigious University of California, Berkeley, have made a spectacular discovery: they identified stretches of DNA in the genomes of modern humans (source in German) that come from ...

For years, the dominant explanation for human evolution suggested that modern humans descended from a single ancestral population in Africa. While scientists have long agreed that Homo sapiens ...

A tiny set of ancient genetic “switches” may have played a surprisingly large role in making human language possible. Researchers found that these DNA regions, which act like volume controls for genes ...

A research review favors migration between 20,000 and 14,000 years ago for ancestors of most living Indigenous Americans.

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

Researchers in a Mayo Clinic-led study have shown how to detect a broad range of DNA mutations in noncancerous human tissues ...

For the first time, scientists have recovered ancient human DNA from cave walls. The search took place at caves throughout Spain and Portugal known for prehistoric paintings, including Spain’s famed ...

Scientists have discovered a human gene with a remarkable double life: it appears to play an important role in brain cells while still retaining the ability to jump around the genome. Called BC200, ...