Knowing how human DNA changes over generations is essential to estimating genetic disease risks and understanding how we ...

Understanding human evolution often involves looking closely at our DNA. Yet obtaining ancient DNA from fossils older than 300,000 years—especially from Africa—is incredibly challenging.

A genomic study of gut microbes during antibiotic use finds selective sweeps in a DNA gyrase gene that drive resistance.

Today, only one kind of hominid remains: Homo sapiens sapiens. The story of human evolution has emerged slowly over the century. The first significant discovery was that of the "Taung child" in 1925.

The enlightened truth of the role of fire in human evolution. Illustration by Paul ... of Colorado further argues that fire altered the quality of sleep. During rapid eye movement (REM) sleep ...

What was the crucial change that set us on the path to becoming human? Our big brains ... reflecting an adaptation to a relatively low-quality, high-bulk diet. The thick waist this gave her ...

For the past 150 years, scientists and laypeople alike have accepted a “savanna” scenario of human evolution. The theory, primarily based on fossil evidence, suggests that because our ancestral ape ...

Professor Svante Pääbo won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for his contribution to the study of human evolution ... isolation of trace amounts of ancient DNA to obtaining high-quality ...