University of Michigan researchers have developed a statistical method that can be used for such wide-ranging applications as ...

The interbreeding event contributed around 20% of modern human DNA, with these genes predominantly found in regions ...

Researchers digitally reconstructed the skull of the ancient Hippopotamus creutzburgi, an extinct dwarf hippo of the Greek ...

As a baby, Holley was shuttled between multiple caretakers and ended up with a couple named the McElroys, who owned a ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

The age of the lines and how they were formed still needs to be verified, but there is a chance this may be one of the oldest ...

Carlos Museum through June 22, is one of the most gorgeous and profound exhibitions you are likely to see this year. Carlos Museum Director Henry Kim is correct when he calls it one of the most ...

Around the world, museums are grappling with the question of what to do with human remains. This includes lifelike copies of ...

Scientists discovered humans descended from two ancient populations, not one. These groups split 1.5 million years ago.

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

Fossilized teeth found in Peru suggest monkeys rafted across the Atlantic from Africa to South America 30 million years ago, ...

A new study reveals that a mysterious human ancestors contributed 20% of modern human genes, potentially enhancing brain ...