An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

All good things must come to an end. Sadly, Homo sapiens’ time on Earth is no exception. And someone would surely take our place as the dominant species. How could genetic engineering spell out the ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

It seems that southern Africa provided an ecological refuge where people adapted successfully for more than 200,000 years – ...

It's tempting to think that we've reached the pinnacle of our evolution, but modern life continues to shape us just as much ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new study based on analyses of ...

For example, the canine gene ADD2 was associated with fear of strangers, but in humans was related to depression. A key ...

The male-determining sex chromosome has lost 97 percent of its ancestral genes in the last 300 million years. If that rate ...

Africa has the greatest human genetic diversity and the hunter-gatherers of southern Africa represent some of the oldest known genetic lineages. They can therefore reveal more about where and when we ...

Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy ...