Got junk? Learn how a new study suggests that, when it comes to our genetic code, that may actually be a good thing.

A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.

Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ancestral group in Africa, dating back 200,000 to 300,000 years. But ...

What scientists once dismissed as junk DNA may actually be some of the most powerful code in our genome. A new international ...

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published July 21 in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain ...

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain features and ...

Hebrew University researchers developed MAgeNet, an AI tool that uses two DNA regions to predict age within 1.36 years.

For the past 150 years, scientists have been working to understand where humans came from and how we got here. This research is based on skeletons from all over the world and even modern DNA ...

Beyond rewriting the story of human origins, this research highlights a broader trend in evolutionary science—the realization that species rarely evolve in isolated, distinct lineages.

Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ancestral group in Africa, dating back 200,000 to 300,000 years. But ...