An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.
Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...
In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...
New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...
New research challenges the long-standing idea that most fixed genetic mutations are neutral. For many years, scientists studying evolution have believed that most genetic changes influencing how ...
The two subspecies split about 20,000 years ago. But since then, they may have interbred more often than Smithsonian ...
While we share bones, joints, and internal plumbing with the rest of the animal kingdom, one tiny facial feature is uniquely ...
At the mercy of natural selection since the dawn of life, our ancestors adapted, mated and died, passing on tiny genetic mutations that eventually made humans what we are today. But evolution isn't ...