Researchers have found surprising links that show that Neanderthal ancestry influences our immune system today in ways more nuanced than previously recognized. Their work is published in the journal ...

Denisovans were first identified not from a complete skeleton, but from DNA extracted from a finger bone found in Denisova Cave in Siberia. Since then, evidence from Tibet and genetic traces in modern ...

Chinese scientists obtain the first molecular evidence of interbreeding between our ancestor ‘Homo erectus’ and the ...

This wide-ranging overview traces human evolution from the earliest primates around 85 million years ago through the emergence of apes, australopithecines, and the many human species that followed. It ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...

Over time, humans lost the vocal membranes and air sacs found in monkeys and apes and developed a more stable voice box.

Scientists have retrieved ancient proteins from six teeth unearthed in China that, for the first time, reveal a molecular ...

Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains, Siberia is where the first evidence of Denisovans was found. (rusak/iStock/Getty Images ...

The answer has less to do with morning people’s discipline than with deep evolutionary history, and a molecular clock ticking ...

Based on Coll Macià's upper-bound generation interval of about 30 years, there have been at least 10,000 generations of ...