Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

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

New research has shown that modern humans descend from not one but two separate ancient human ancestral lineages.

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

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.

Scientists have found that 20% of our DNA may come from a mysterious ancestor, according to WP. This discovery changes how we ...

Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have uncovered new genetic interactions that may contribute ...

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

Homocysteine is an amino acid that plays a key role in important processes like making proteins. Vitamins B6, B12, and folate ...

Details on their findings were reported in the February 20 online issue of The American Journal of Human Genetics. "Our research reveals the potential for digenic inheritance -- where two genes ...

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 ...