This video traces the human evolutionary tree from great apes to modern Homo sapiens, explaining the difference between ...

All modern humans may descend from a small group of people who survived a catastrophic event just over 70,000 years ago.

Somewhere between 2% and 19% of the genetic ancestry carried by present-day West African populations traces back to an ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A new study provides fresh evidence that ancient interbreeding with archaic human species may have provided modern humans with genetic variation that helped them ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how human-specific DNA changes shaped human evolution. It's just over a decade since ...

Interbreeding between modern humans and archaic hominins, including Neanderthals and Denisovans, occurred as modern humans migrated outside of Africa. Here, we report on evidence of adaptive ...

What can archaic introgression tell us about archaic humans and about ourselves? Every person alive today inherited some portion of their genomes from Neanderthals, Denisovans, and other archaic ...

UC San Diego researchers have found high levels of lead in the teeth of both Neanderthals (left) and modern humans (right). However, a gene mutation may have protected modern human brains, allowing ...

Compared to other primates, humans have evolved dramatic changes to cognitive and social behaviors. However, little is known about the molecular, cellular and circuit-level modifications in the human ...

Some modern humans share a genetic variant with extinct human relatives called Denisovans. New research, however, suggests our archaic cousins may have been the conduit for genetic material from ...