Now researchers from The Rockefeller University have unearthed intriguing genetic evidence: a protein variant found only in humans that may have helped shape the emergence of spoken language.

The Noonan lab at Yale University is focused on understanding how HARs contribute to the evolution of uniquely human brain features.

Researchers from The University of Manchester—in collaboration with the Universities of Granada, Lund, and Oslo—have ...

Why did humans start speaking? Scientists suggest genetics played a big role. They say the evolution of this singular ability ...

For decades, scientists assumed that life on Earth emerged through a chain of highly improbable flukes. But a new theory suggests it may have instead arrived just in time.

When the Hamilton County Coroner reopens the case decades later, new DNA technology begins identifying more victims.

Structural variants in the human ... (and all other variants) should be assigned to the complete reference assembly, and this data would ideally be centralized in the widely used genome browsers ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

For decades, scientists believed that intelligent life was a rare cosmic accident. A new study challenges that idea, arguing ...