A novel genetic model suggests that the ancestors of modern humans came from two distinct populations that split and ...

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.

A new study reveals that a mysterious human ancestors contributed 20% of modern human genes, potentially enhancing brain ...

Chimpanzees bear genetic adaptations that help them thrive in their different forest and savannah habitats. Some of the ...

We've long assumed our species evolved from a tidy, single stream of ancestors. But life on Earth is never quite so ...

Mice are still incapable of writing the complete works of Shakespeare, despite some being given a human "language gene".

In the deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy, medical investigators and the sheriff's office are temporarily restrained ...

For the last two decades, the prevailing view in human evolutionary genetics has been that Homo sapiens first appeared in Africa around 200,000 to 300,000 years ago, and descended from a single ...

Cambridge University researchers have uncovered evidence that two distinct populations of ancient hominins, separated for ...

New genetic research suggests that humans first developed language around 135,000 years ago when populations began ...

CDKL5, one of the five members of the CDKL family of genes, is important for proper neurodevelopment and associated with ...

The scientist who went to prison for gene hacking a pair of twins in China is now decrying the ethics that punished him.