Genetic tweaks allowed early humans to stand, balance and walk on two legs instead of moving on all fours like other primates ...

A new study maps 40,000 years of Denisovan and human interbreeding, showing how ancient DNA spread, faded, and shaped ...

Recent studies reveal that early humans didn’t just replace one another, they interbred. Fossils and DNA show hybridization ...

Scientists have made a significant breakthrough in the study of the first humans on Earth, who lived approximately 2.75 ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

Another surprising finding from this study concerns the ancient Jomon people from the Japanese archipelago and the ...