University of Kansas researchers reviewed ancient DNA and 23,000-year-old White Sands footprints to trace early human ...

Humans and chimpanzees share almost all their genes. Despite this, our brains have developed in different ways. Researchers ...

Pandemics are scourges, but one that afflicted primates millions of years ago separated the evolution of chimpanzees from ...

Previously, scientists thought the first humans arrived in North America roughly 13,500 years ago, a theory known as “Clovis ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mosquitoes have existed far longer than humans, but evolved to feed off of their blood. - Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP/Getty Images ...

Treating inherited diseases is one of the greatest challenges in modern medicine. In the future, targeted gene corrections at the earliest stages of embryonic development could help prevent certain ...

Two small changes in human DNA may have played a big role in helping our ancestors walk upright, researchers say. The study, recently published in the journal Nature, found that these tweaks changed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Study finds ancient regulatory DNA tied to human language, with effects that predate the split from Neanderthals. (CREDIT: ...

Long before humans spread across the globe, a deadly disease may have quietly shaped where our ancestors lived—and even how we evolved. New research reveals that malaria didn’t just threaten early ...

ATLANTA — Mosquitoes haven't always had a taste for human blood — partly because the tiny yet dangerous insects have been around a lot longer than humans. Pinpointing when mosquitoes shifted their ...