Neanderthals lost genetic diversity around 110,000 years ago. Researchers confirmed this by studying fossilized inner ears.

Scientists employ deep learning to analyze and compare gene regulation across various cell types in human and chicken brains.

A new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (MPI-EB) sheds fresh light on one of the most ...

In their effort to answer a decades-old biological question about how the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is able to establish ...

British physician and microbiologist Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin nearly 100 years ago, was the first to warn ...

Scientists are gathering more evidence on which factor has more of an impact on human wellbeing amid the aging process.

Chris Stringer is tracing human ancestors back a million years, but pinpointing when exactly Homo sapiens emerged is even ...

In Greek mythology, a chimera is a grotesque hybrid. But chimeras are not just tales. Here's how some scientists have been ...

New research suggests a genetic variant in the NOVA1 protein may have played a key role in the emergence of human speech.

Whether humans are singular among animals in their use of complex language remains a hot topic among scientists in many fields. Rockefeller University researchers Robert B. Darnell and Erich D. Jarvis ...

A genetic study published on Tuesday offers an important new clue. Researchers found that, between 250,000 and 500,000 years ...