Although wolf-canine interbreeding has been considered extremely rare, the latest research shows that many present-day ...

Scientists used mtDNA to confirm what many researchers had long suspected: the Chinese “dragon man” Harbin skull belonged to ...

Genetic ancestry is a concept that has long captured people’s imaginations. It’s no surprise that it’s been turned into a ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

Four billion years ago, Earth was violent, hot, and unstable. Yet new research suggests that by then, life had already ...

New breakthroughs in microbial analysis could enhance disease prediction, environmental protection and our understanding of the planet’s smallest life forms.