There is something almost comforting about the old, schoolbook version of human origins. It had a single ancestral population ...

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Artistic reconstruction of a dire wolf. You may have seen them in Game of Thrones, but dire wolves aren’t fantasy beasts.

Craig Venter, the hard-charging San Diego biologist who co-led the sequencing of the human genome, leading to better ways to ...

How do our genes determine our appearance and our susceptibility to disease? This question is central to biomedical research, ...

What happens when natural selection, the most powerful process driving change in the living world, shapes artificial ...

Most hypotheses suggest that earlier forms of life had partial genetic codes and used fewer than 20 amino acids. To test ...

A series of recent studies using unprecedented ancient DNA datasets have revealed that human evolution is far more complex and recent than previously thought. Findings challenge the idea of a single ...

A wave of new genetic research is transforming our understanding of human evolution, revealing that Homo sapiens likely arose from multiple interconnected populations in Africa rather than a single ...

Alejandro Quintanar/Pexels What happens when natural selection, the most powerful process driving change in the living world, shapes artificial ...

Prehistoric humans in Africa may have avoided areas infested with malaria-spreading mosquitoes, a new study suggests.