New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

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

An evolutionary "trap" has haunted crested and marbled newts for 25 million years: Leiden researchers have uncovered a mysterious DNA error that should not be able to arise—yet persists all the same.

High in the Ecuadorian Andes, at altitudes thousands of meters above sea level, humans face environmental pressures very ...

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

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 ...

Scientists trace the origins of human kissing back over 20 million years to ancient apes who first showed gentle ...

EVE combines evolutionary insights with human population data to identify damaging genetic mutations, improving variant ...

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

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

CSHL postdoc Iacopo Gentile has devised a new system for identifying redundant genes and predicting how certain genetic ...