Somewhere between 50,000 and 60,000 years ago, the ancestors of modern East Asians interbred with Neanderthals and Denisovans ...

It is one of the strangest puzzles in human evolution. About 90% of people across every human culture favor their right ...

A survey of more than 300 mouse strains has found widespread discrepancies between how mutant mice are reported and their ...

Summary: A new evolutionary study offers a compelling solution to one of anthropology’s oldest puzzles: why roughly 90% of humans are right-handed, a population-level bias unique among primates. The ...

When the earliest humans began to migrate out of Africa, it didn’t take long before they ran into an ocean. Or a sea. Or a lake. Or a river — most of our planet’s surface is water, after all. For ...

Scientists retrieved proteins from six teeth unearthed in China that reveal a potential link between Homo erectus and later ...

Unlike humans, many plants have more than two sets of chromosomes. This trait may help them adapt to environmental upheaval, such as climate change.

Learn how birds and mammals share the same genetic toolkit that helps them develop their faces, and why they don't look the ...

An experimental weight loss drug tested in mice targets five receptor systems and may reduce side effects, according to a ...

Researchers at the Stanford School of Medicine have found that ethnicity and geography may influence human molecular makeup - ...

Scientists analyzing the genomes of thousands of people across Japan discovered evidence for a previously overlooked third ...