The discovery of ancient human cousins has long stirred wonder and debate. Early Neanderthal remains offered a glimpse into ...

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 ...

More information: A structured coalescent model reveals deep ancestral structure shared by all modern humans, Nature Genetics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41588-025-02117-1 Provided by University of ...

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

This AI system can analyze up to one million DNA letters at once, predicting how tiny changes in noncoding regions trigger ...

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

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.

The new AlphaGenome model can take an extremely long DNA sequence as input — up to 1 million letters, also known as base pairs — and predict thousands of molecular properties.

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 ...