Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering ...

"Within the past 50,000 years most of the variation that is seen among human populations evolved," said researcher Jason ...

A study of tool use among chimps, our closest living relatives, has cast light on the human evolutionary journey.

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From this trove of genetic information, researchers have already identified dozens of examples of relatively recent evolution. Anatomically modern humans migrated from Africa sometime between ...

Researcher Christopher J. Bae identified Homo juluensis, a new human species that coexisted with Denisovans in Asia. A ...

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