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

Genome assemblies from 65 individuals, representing a variety of the world’s populations, are advancing the scientific exploration of complex genetic structural variation. Structural variations are ...

A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that differences between Neanderthal and early ...

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Researchers have significantly expanded the catalogue of known human genetic variation. The resulting datasets, shared in two back-to-back publications in the journal Nature, constitute what may be ...

In 2001 scientists studying human language made a breakthrough: by looking at the DNA of a family with a rare speech ...

The human body is an exquisite formation that structures our movements, abilities, and identities. Careful observation, description and analysis of human anatomy can inform an understanding of the ...