As Earth approaches warmer levels experienced earlier in its geologic history, it may be bad news for human survival.

In a nutshell New research challenges the long-held belief that human evolution required improbable “lucky breaks,” ...

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

Scientists have identified a tiny genetic change—present in nearly all living humans but absent in our closest extinct ...

Dec. 5, 2024 — A new study suggests that the fundamental abilities underlying human language and technological culture may have evolved before humans and apes ... A Fossil First: Scientists Find ...

A specific gene variant seen in people is likely one of many that contributed to the development of language in modern humans ...

A new study has identified 15 fundamental motives that drive human behavior, showing how these forces intertwine and relate ...

Selective breeding over the past century has shortened and flattened the snouts of German domestic pigs. Though not an ...

The Noonan lab at Yale University is focused on understanding how HARs contribute to the evolution of uniquely human brain features.

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

In a lab at Rockefeller University in New York, a mouse squeaks. But this is no ordinary squeak. It is a strange, complex ...