Some 23,000 years ago, the first people walked along the muddy edge of a lake in what is now New Mexico. Their feet sank into ...

Treating inherited diseases is one of the greatest challenges in modern medicine. In the future, targeted gene corrections at the earliest stages of embryonic development could help prevent certain ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mosquitoes have existed far longer than humans, but evolved to feed off of their blood. - Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP/Getty Images ...

Two small changes in human DNA may have played a big role in helping our ancestors walk upright, researchers say. The study, recently published in the journal Nature, found that these tweaks changed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Study finds ancient regulatory DNA tied to human language, with effects that predate the split from Neanderthals. (CREDIT: ...

Two molecular studies link the nearly complete Harbin skull, at least 146,000 years old, to the elusive Denisovan lineage.

When he was a doctoral student at the University of Copenhagen, Eske Willerslev was a nobody. At least, that’s how it seemed to the budding evolutionary geneticist, who was unable to lay his hands on ...

Long before humans spread across the globe, a deadly disease may have quietly shaped where our ancestors lived—and even how we evolved. New research reveals that malaria didn’t just threaten early ...

For the first time, scientists have recovered ancient human DNA from cave walls. The search took place at caves throughout Spain and Portugal known for prehistoric paintings, including Spain’s famed ...

ATLANTA — Mosquitoes haven't always had a taste for human blood — partly because the tiny yet dangerous insects have been around a lot longer than humans. Pinpointing when mosquitoes shifted their ...