Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, ...

The scientific wonderers at What If fast-forward through millions of years of primate development to show the path that led ...

The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

The gap between genetics and archaeology leaves us with an unclear picture of where the Neanderthals originated. Columnist ...

Ancient DNA reveals how farming accelerated human evolution, driving genetic changes over the past 10,000 years.

The terms hominid and hominin are often used interchangeably, but they do not mean the same thing. Hominids include all great ...

An English zoologist, he wrote an immensely popular 1967 book arguing that ancient genes, shared with apes, shape our lives.

Because grandmothers helped out, we, as an entire species, grew to live longer and longer and developed our big brains, tiny ...

Janelle James gets candid on Abbott Elementary, Ava Coleman’s evolution, stand-up, and why success now means something deeper ...

Kids' television creator Sid Krofft, who along with his brother Marty created some of the most memorable and weirdest children's programming of the late 1960s, '70s and early '80s, has died at age 96.

Archaeologists in Israel unearthed prehistoric hand axes that Homo erectus crafted from stones including fossils and crystals ...