New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

Specific genomic regions that seem to play a role in human language development evolved hundreds of thousands of years ago, ...

Language may feel like one of the most distinctly human things about you, but the genetic groundwork for it appears to be ...

A landmark DNA analysis has overturned the long-standing theory that modern humans arose from a single ancestral population ...

Fossils and ancient DNA are revealing that human evolution was shaped by repeated interbreeding between different human ...

DNA switches that predate humans and Neanderthals still influence how people speak today, offering new clues about language ...

Dax Zey was born on January 1, 2026. It was Herasight’s 11th baby, and Chase and Arthur’s first. He was as healthy as his ...

It's the classic nature-versus-nurture debate, and twin studies are among the best ways to untangle the complex knot of ...

Since the early 20th century, people’s skulls have got rounder and their jaws have got wider, probably because of changes in ...

In the last 30 years or so, something fascinating has happened to academia in the UK and beyond. There is now ‘mainstream academia’, in which ideas which challenge woke dogmas either cannot be ...

The International Olympic Committee issued a new policy last month, banning transgender women from participating in women's ...