A team of researchers has used advanced DNA sequencing to develop the most comprehensive atlas yet of genetic change through ...

and even the evolution of the human brain. Li Haipeng, a computational biologist at the Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health and another senior author, emphasized that this discovery is just ...

What followed was a cascade of environmental and biological changes that may have shaped the course of human evolution. This period, called the Laschamps excursion, lasted around 2,000 years.

An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

A fossil jawbone found off Taiwan has been confirmed as Denisovan using ancient protein analysis, revealing they lived in ...

Researchers have precisely dated key fossil sites in Central Anatolia, Türkiye, to 7-10 million years ago using a new ...

The international community has a golden opportunity to start reining in the escalating, mostly ignored global burden of chronic kidney disease. The genetic bases of the seven pairs of contrasting ...

“All the while, I couldn’t help thinking of how human brains develop, with an initial surfeit of neurons and connections that get gradually pared down as the brain is pruned into a more ...

Apr. 21, 2025 — An international collaboration has published groundbreaking research, shedding light on the most significant increase in complexity in the history of life's evolution on Earth ...