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

Oldest Ever Genetic Data of Ancient Human Relative Found in a 2-Million-Year-Old Teeth Excites Archaeologists Genetic ...

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

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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.

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

Millions of people will find that their DNA data has been put up for sale as the human genetics company enters Chapter 11 administration.

Genetic engineering in non-human primates has long been limited by the need for virus-based gene delivery methods. Recently, researchers in Japan successfully used a nonviral system to introduce a ...

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

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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 ...