Woodrats weigh less than half a pound but can survive venomous rattlesnake bites that would hospitalize, or even kill, a full ...

Scientists warn that the human Y chromosome has lost most of its genes over millions of years, and new research suggests ...

New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

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From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

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 the genomes of 28 people who lived between 10,200 ...

Schizophrenia affects around 23 million people globally, or one in 345 people. The illness can beset sufferers with ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution reports that Italian bears living in areas with many villages evolved and ...

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the \"vampire squid from hell,\" revealing it bridges the evolutionary gap between ...

Immense progress has been made over many years of archaeology and study into human evolution, and exciting new information has been uncovered via archaeology.

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