Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful ...

Ancient DNA reveals that childhood viruses lived with humans for thousands of years, reshaping how we understand human and ...

To Shakespeare’s Hamlet we humans are “the paragon of animals”. But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans are far from being evolution’s greatest achievement. For example, humans have ...

A rare breed of hunting dogs known for its forked nose, the Turkish Pointer, might just help scientists better understand why human babies are sometimes born with facial clefts. In a recent study, ...

A Viewpoint published in Genomic Psychiatry examines how Brazil's extraordinary genetic diversity creates unparalleled ...

Move aside, Neanderthals, new suitors of modern humans have been discovered from the Altai Mountains of Siberia. These suitors are the Denisovans, whose interbreeding with modern humans apparently ...

Science is searching for the secret to their extreme longevity from many angles. But scientists still hadn’t covered the ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...

Brenna Henn had a long-term grant to study the genetic diversity of Africans and people of African descent. Then her N.I.H.

The white-handed gibbon comes closest to humans in the study, with a monogamy rate of 63.5%. It’s the only other top-ranked ...