Buried deep in a South African cave, 2.2 million-year-old teeth may hold the genetic signature of a mysterious human relative ...

We are just one branch of a diverse human family tree. Aside from Neanderthals, who were they – and why did we replace them?

Ten Cambridge scientists have been elected as fellows of the Royal Society. They join the ranks of Stephen Hawking, Isaac ...

Tübingen achieves remarkable success and has good chance of maintaining its University of Excellence title – Top research in three areas to be sustained from other sources of support ...

Scientists have recently shed some light on exactly why elephants, one of the biggest animals on the planet, paradoxically ...

Dozens of UT Austin students received Graduate Research Fellowships and honors from the National Science Foundation.

A small segment of human DNA boosts brain size and complexity, revealing both the origins of intelligence and its ...

A study has found that an ancient protein motif that binds to nucleic acids is functionally "ambidextrous." This means that ...

Leading cancer researchers from UC San Francisco presented talks about advances in targeted therapies, cancer genomics, using AI to personalize cancer treatment, improving diagnosis of hard-to-treat ...

The study, published in Molecular Ecology, suggests that yeast evolution has been profoundly shaped by human migration patterns dating back ... lead author and Ph.D. candidate at UGA’s Department of ...

But in terms of human evolution, I think it is largely curiosity ... despite the big revolution we have in genetics and in molecular biology. So we don’t really see that people get older and ...

The researchers reviewed the biological and social evolution of human scalp hair. Based on their analysis, they proposed a novel theory that points to a molecular ... and cell biology at the ...