In a lab at Rockefeller University in New York, a mouse squeaks. But this is no ordinary squeak. It is a strange, complex ...

Modern Humans and Neanderthals Are Connected! Ancient Mongolian Skull Reveals Stunning Link Deep within Mongolia’s Salkhit ...

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 ...

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

A new study links a particular gene to the ancient origins of spoken language, proposing that a protein variant found only in humans may have helped us communicate in a novel way. Speech allowed us to ...

In a new study published in Science, a Belgian research team explores how genetic switches controlling gene activity define brain cell types across species.

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

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

A 2023 study found that Ötzi, the famous ancient glacier mummy who lived 5,300 years ago before succumbing to a violent death ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

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