To Shakespeare's Hamlet, we humans are "the paragon of animals." But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans ...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

Maba 1 was considered a ‘Chinese Neanderthal’ for their resemblance manifested in the facial area. However, this study did ...

A 300,000-year-old skull found in China may belong to a completely unknown human species—rewriting everything we thought we ...

For years, the dominant narrative held that modern humans arose from a single, unbroken lineage in Africa. But then came ...

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 ...

A regulatory variant of the ACSF3 gene, rs34590044-A, increases ACSF3 expression in the liver, promoting higher basal metabolic rate and greater stature in modern humans, especially with meat-rich ...

This allowed them to reconstruct a family tree showing which fossils belonged to the same groups. The Eurasian hominins clustered into three groups: modern humans, Neanderthals and H. longi.

This type of setting is among the harshest environments humans have ever inhabited ... Early studies of the DNA of modern people turned up few fixed differences—genetic variants possessed ...

What do humans have in common with the dinosaurs that trampled through ancient forests? It turns out that both may have a surprising impact on the size of seeds in the fruits growing around them.