New research has revealed an incredible discovery: modern humans carry 20% of their genetic material from a mysterious ...

Understanding human evolution often involves looking closely at our DNA. Yet obtaining ancient DNA from fossils older than 300,000 years—especially from Africa—is incredibly challenging.

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.

However, the adaptive value, mechanistic diversity, and evolution of epigenome-targeted DNA repair systems across the tree of life remain unresolved ... we queried for the PWWP domain of the human ...

Have you ever looked into the mirror and wondered just how deeply your roots stretch back in the tree of life? It might surprise you to learn that you, a modern human, share an ancient bond with slimy ...

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The results, published this week in Nature magazine by an international team of 123 researchers, help deepen people's understanding of human evolution and protect endangered ape populations.

The resource is already lending itself to comparative studies that offer new insights into human and ape evolution ... kin on the primate ancestral tree, diverged about 10.6 to 10.9 million ...

The human face is markedly different from that of our fossil relatives and ancestors, most notably, it is smaller and more gracile. However, the reasons for this evolutionary shift are still not fully ...