Long-buried traces of Denisovan DNA have resurfaced in modern human genomes — and they may still be working for us today.

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

A research team led by Professor Luo Shujin from the School of Life Sciences has uncovered a surprising chapter in the ...

In the past twenty years, major technological advances in extracting and analyzing DNA have transformed the ability to ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

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

When scientists sequenced the first Neanderthal genomes, they did not just resurrect a lost branch of the human family tree, ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering evidence that deliberate<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...

Genetic sharing among evolutionary neighbors all happens through hybrids: the offspring produced when individuals from two ...

Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

Two genomes from 7,000 years ago found in the Takarkori rock shelter reveal a lost lineage from North Africa in the Green Sahara.