A new atlas allows researchers to systematically test how genetic differences between humans and chimpanzees affect gene ...

Your DNA is constantly changing. And if it weren’t for genetic mutations, evolution wouldn’t exist. So, what would life be like if that stopped? What causes your DNA to change? How would your life ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...

Human Evolution in Real Time: The Tibetan Plateau’s Living Experiment Forget what you learned in school about evolution being ...

The familiar claim about humans evolving from apes leaves out an important part of the story. Fossils and DNA reveal a much ...

Brain wrinkles and grooves support advanced cognition, traditionally thought to result from newly evolved genes ...

Before 2026, no documentation existed of a human gene that was both mobile and required for bodily functions. However, ...

A new study that investigates the genetics of people and malaria parasites has found that people with the sickle cell variant ...

For two decades, scientists have thought that early modern humans (Homo sapiens) descended from a single lineage. But new genetic research suggests that our origins are far more complex. Scientists ...

In 2010, researchers searching through viral DNA stumbled upon something that didn’t belong there. Inside the genome of a ...

Humans, who are classified among the five great apes, are closest genetically, i.e., DNA similarity, to chimpanzees (98.8%-99%) and bonobos (98.8%). [Blueringmedia ...