Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful ...

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 ...

Tiny genetic variations between humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans might not be all they were cracked up to be.

To Shakespeare’s Hamlet we humans are “the paragon of animals”. But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans are far from being evolution’s greatest achievement. For example, humans have ...

Move aside, Neanderthals, new suitors of modern humans have been discovered from the Altai Mountains of Siberia. These suitors are the Denisovans, whose interbreeding with modern humans apparently ...

Biologists mapping the human body have long assumed that every major kind of microscopic life inside us already had a place ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

A rare breed of hunting dogs known for its forked nose, the Turkish Pointer, might just help scientists better understand why human babies are sometimes born with facial clefts. In a recent study, ...

Researchers found genetic differences that likely resulted from humans killing aggressive bears, leaving docile individuals ...

Researchers studying British Labrador retrievers have identified multiple genes associated with canine obesity and shown that these genes are also associated with obesity in humans. The dog gene found ...