An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...

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. Using advanced analysis based ...

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

The Indigenous peoples of the Bolivian highlands are survivors. For thousands of years they have lived at altitudes of more than two miles, where oxygen is about 35 percent lower than at sea level.

Tracking the origin and evolution of human populations in Arabia / Jeffrey I. Rose and Michael D. Petraglia -- The Red Sea, coastal landscapes, and hominin dispersals / Geoff Bailey -- Pleistocene ...

Looks can be deceiving -- Many trees in the forest : the DNA quest to find our closest ape relative -- The great divorce : how and when did humans and chimpanzees part ways? -- A population crash in ...

Humans, who are classified among the five great apes, are closest genetically, i.e., DNA similarity, to chimpanzees (98.8%-99%) and bonobos (98.8%). [Blueringmedia ...