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 ...

Utilizing sophisticated analyses grounded in complete genome sequences, researchers at the University of Cambridge have ...

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

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 ...

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

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

A new genetic study suggests humans developed language at least 135,000 years ago, reshaping our understanding of early ...

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

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 ...