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Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

Researchers examining the brains of living people found that they differed more substantially than Neanderthals' brains ...

New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that differences between Neanderthal and early ...

NEW YORK -- Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don't know much about who got with whom, or why. A new genetic ...

Veronica Paulus is a former STAT intern supported by the Harvard University Institute of Politics. Complex regions of the human genome remained uncharted, even after researchers sequenced the genome ...

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA indicates that natural selection continued to shape hundreds of genes.

Imagine an asteroid striking Earth and wiping out most of the human population. Even if some lucky people survived the impact, Homo sapiens might still face extinction, because the social networks ...

VS3 Medical Announces First Patients Enrolled in First-in-Human Study of Novel Neurovascular Implant to Address Symptomatic Venous Sinus Stenosis VS3 Medical, Inc., a private company developing novel ...