But more than a highlight reel, Beyond Amazing offers a closer look at the artistry, social impact, and behind-the-scenes ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the ...

The Scopes “monkey trial” garnered international attention, and the battle that was fought continues in some form in other ...

Neanderthal populations suffered a single late genetic bottleneck, refuting long-held theories about their diversity.

Modern humans were essentially like waves crashing on a beach, slowly but steadily eroding the beach away.” With this vivid ...

"Recombination complicates our understanding of the evolution of ... CoV-2 left their points of origin less than 10 years before they were first reported to infect humans—more than a thousand ...

Scopes monkey trial famously put the spotlight on evolution and appeared to mark a defeat for biblical fundamentalism ...

Mounting evidence from genome studies indicates that, contrary to received wisdom, our species has undergone profound ...

A journey to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture took me places I will not soon forget.

A new genomic analysis by Murchison et al. has refined the origin and evolution of this cancer. Murchison et al. sequenced the genomes of two CTVT tumours and their hosts, located in Brazil and ...

A new fossil and DNA analysis traces how dozens of sloth species responded to climate shifts and humans. Just two small tree-dwelling sloths remain today.

"It's a place that has been known and used by indigenous people for tens of thousands of years, probably, back maybe 18,000 ...