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 ...

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The ...

Learn why some researchers say that our culture – not genetics – is driving our evolution and what that could mean for our future.

By tracing when variations in the human genome first appeared, researchers have found that advances in cognitive abilities ...

CRISPR will get easier and easier to administer. What does that mean for the future of our species? In 2016, I attended a large meeting of journalists in Washington, DC. The keynote speaker was ...

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 ...

It turns out that a gene called LTR5Hs activates a gene that affects the growth of an embryo and the proliferation of stem ...

A new study concludes that the speed at which the human brain evolved may help explain why our species experiences autism.

The human gastrointestinal tract is in a constant state of flux; it hosts a diverse and dynamic community of microbes known as the gut microbiome, and is constantly exposed to things in the ...

All modern Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest malaria parasite in humans, are descendants of one initial infection and so are very closely related, with relatively limited genetic differences. A ...

A reconstruction of the crushed skull labelled Yunxian 2, which has features that are closer to species thought to have existed later in human evolution - BBC A digital reconstruction of a ...

Many people hold the view that evolution in humans has come to a halt. But while modern medicine and technologies have changed the environment in which evolution operates, many scientists are in ...