Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years ...

For decades, the dominant theory in human evolution suggested that modern humans descended from a single ancestral lineage in Africa. However, groundbreaking new research from the University of ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists digitally reconstructed the fossilized skull, which is between 940,000 and 1.1 million years old, to aid their research ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

Ever wonder why certain fears feel almost hardwired into us? Like there's something deeper pulling the strings when we spot a spider or stand too close to an edge? Turns out, that's not just your ...