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

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 ...

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

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

It seems that southern Africa provided an ecological refuge where people adapted successfully for more than 200,000 years – ...

Immense progress has been made over many years of archaeology and study into human evolution, and exciting new information has been uncovered via archaeology.

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 ...

In a new study, University of Maine researchers found that culture helps humans adapt to their environment and overcome challenges better and faster than genetics. After conducting an extensive review ...

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

Human evolution may no longer be driven primarily by genetics, according to a new theory by researchers at the University of Maine which claims that cultural systems are now shaping the way humans ...

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 ...