But it was not a Neanderthal or Homo sapien; researchers from the Max Planck Institute announced that it was a new species of human, the Denisovan. Interbreeding can be confusing. For instance, why do ...

From the deserts of Africa to the icy frontiers of Antarctica, humans have left their mark on every continent. But how and ...

University of Tokyo researchers have investigated the origin and dispersal scenarios of Homo sapiens into East Eurasia. The ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million ...

Jef Akst was managing editor of The Scientist, where she started as an intern in 2009 after receiving a master’s degree from Indiana University in April 2009 studying the mating behavior of seahorses.

Each of us has enough DNA to reach from here to the sun and back, more than 300 times. How is all of that DNA packaged so tightly into chromosomes and squeezed into a tiny nucleus? Histones are a ...

And people in Southeast Asia carry the DNA of the Denisovans, so there was some gene flow between those other forms of humans and modern humans. Demsas: So the first thing I want to jump in on is ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million ...

The story of Neanderthals is written in bones, genes, and evolutionary shifts that span hundreds of thousands of years. These ancient humans left behind a wealth of fossil evidence, yet their origins, ...

Unique versions of the lactase gene found in the genomes of East Asian people may have increased in prevalence within the ...

Objects discovered in Tanzania and dated to 1.5 million years ago help to rewrite human ancestors’ use of carved bone ...