An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.
Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...
In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...
Homo sapiens has existed for at least 300,000 years, but its exact origin is still unknown. Some theories say that it evolved ...
Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long ...
New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...
A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...
Learn how genomes from 28 ancient individuals show that Homo sapiens lived in southern Africa in near isolation for hundreds ...
One of the biggest mysteries in human evolution has just been solved. In 2010, a groundbreaking genetic analysis revealed that east Asia was once home to a previously unknown group of enigmatic ...
The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...
Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe. Using advanced analysis based ...