Technical advances allow researchers to trace the genetic changes that occur over time. “There were some cells in there that were very messed up,” says Joe Luquette, who studies bioinformatics at ...

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

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

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

The act of kissing may have started long before modern humans existed, a new modeling study suggests. Kissing stretches back roughly 21 million years, to the shared ancestor of humans and other large ...

As our evolution slows and industrialization and technology accelerates, a growing body of research suggests that human biology is struggling to keep pace. Many of the chronic stress-related health ...