Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

A genetic study published on Tuesday offers an important new clue. Researchers found that, between 250,000 and 500,000 years ...

Researchers discovered how genetic switches shaped human brain evolution by fine-tuning shared gene expression.

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

A new contender for a human 'language gene' can change the way that mice squeak when it is incorporated into their DNA.

What makes the human brain unique? A Yale study unlocks new insights into genetic changes that shaped our evolution.

For decades, scientists assumed that the first modern humans to arrive in Europe, around 45,000 years ago, quickly evolved ...

A new study reveals how AI-driven deep learning models can decode the genetic regulatory switches that define brain cell ...

D NA’s power to illuminate humanity’s past never ceases to amaze. Collected from those now alive, it shows how their ...

The Fascination with Neanderthals Begins For many, the name Neanderthals conjures images of hairy, robust humans who walked ...

Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined ... unlike birds, the evolution of bats' wings and legs is ...

Scientists have identified NOVA1, a unique human language gene that may have played a key role in the evolution of spoken ...