Why are 90% of humans right-handed? A new study published in PLOS Biology suggests that human right-handedness may have evolved because of ...

Scientists have uncovered a new theory for why most humans are right-handed. A major study suggests upright walking and a rapidly expanding...

A groundbreaking DNA study has uncovered evidence of a third ancestral group contributing to Japan's population, originating from northeast...

Researchers are now analyzing ancient DNA found in soil to identify extinct species, revolutionizing prehistoric ecosystem research. This i...

Scientists explore the mystery of Neanderthal extinction. A new theory links their disappearance to the Laschamp event. This event weakened...

Researchers at Brazil's Federal University of São Paulo have discovered that Neanderthals from 50,000 years ago were infected with three vi...

Bone fragments discovered in Ilsenhohle cave in central Germany have rewritten the early history of Homo sapiens in Europe. The findings, d...

Since the 1990s, studies of Neanderthal DNA have exposed our species' intertwined history.

Research by Swedish paleogeneticist Svante Paabo, who won the medicine Nobel prize last week, helped reveal that people of European descent...

Orientalism — stereotyping cultures, histories and peoples through a colonial, and later, First World media, prism — is something that plag...

As their genes’ remnants combat Covid-19, there’s no shame in owning up our ancestry.

Washington, April 28 (IANS) An international team of researchers has successfully retrieved human DNA in cave sediments where no skeletal r...

Scientists from universities of Cambridge and Oxford Brookes in the UK have reviewed the latest evidence gleaned from pathogen genomes and ...

Scientists are not convinced that chins evolved as a result of modern human jaws needing an extra bone to help with chewing.

People living today who are of European, Eurasian and Asian descent have well-identified Neanderthal-derived segments in their genome.

Early modern humans interbred with Neanderthals when they first came to Europe, DNA analysis of a 40,000-year-old jawbone suggests.

The basic technology for these Lazarus projects already exists: in 2000, for instance, a falling tree killed the last surviving Iberian Ibe...