Scientists analyze 22,000 genomes documenting hundreds of genetic changes due to natural selection over the past 10,000 years ...

"The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Palaeolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology." That’s a quote from Edward O. Wilson, the renowned father of sociobiology ...

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries in evolution. It may not be that simple.

“Human evolution is a tree,” said Prof. Xijun Ni of Fudan University, who led the research along with Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London. “This tree had many branches, and there ...

There’s a theory that many of us have an “inner Neanderthal.” The idea is that Homo sapiens and a cousin species once bred, ...

A massive study of ancient DNA from nearly 16,000 people across more than 10,000 years in West Eurasia reveals that natural ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

While the Vatican acknowledges stages of technological development, it lacks a model of integrating science and religion that can adequately assess the influence of technology. The Vatican's approach, ...

The generally accepted theory of the spread of ancient humans from Africa, where they first evolved, known as “Out of Africa,” holds that a single species, Homo erectus, subsequently migrated to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The white skulls are the original, warped fossils, while the grey ones are digitally corrected replicas. (CREDIT: Fudan University ...