Neanderthal intelligence may have been similar to modern humans, with research showing minimal cognitive differences between ...

Languages and human DNA both capture aspects of human diversity. But how are they related? A new international study led by ...

Brain size can matter across the broad sweep of primate evolution but among humans isn't the best way to estimate ...

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

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

Genetic variations that only some people possess showing human diversity ...

Genomic data provides evidence for a previously unknown wave of migration, with Indigenous groups living in central and ...

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

Sperm whales have always fascinated researchers for their diving prowess and the complicated nature of their vocalisations. However, it seems the late.

Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act ...