A long, low basin in eastern Africa has spent millions of years collecting some of the most important clues to human origins.

Scientists have found that the crust beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift is thinning to a critical point, signaling that the ...

Archaeologists found 120,000-year-old human footprints in Saudi Arabia, revealing insights into ancient migration and life ...

New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

A Harvard-led team analyzed nearly 16,000 ancient and 6,400 modern genomes from Western Eurasia, uncovering 479 gene variants shaped by natural selection over the past 10,000 years. The findings show ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

A bizarre, cyclops-like creature from nearly 600 million years ago may hold the key to how your eyes—and even your sleep ...

A landmark Nature study led by Harvard scientists has mapped genetic changes in human populations over the past 10,000 years, revealing hundreds of DNA variants shaped by natural selection. The ...

Rather than replicating it directly, it’s more appropriate to use it as a source of ideas.” Humanoids face the same question.

On 25 April 1953, Watson and Crick published an article, in the acclaimed journal “Nature” titled “Molecular structure of nucleic acids: A structure for deoxyribonucleic acid”. The one-page article ...

Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act ...

A Harvard study indicates natural selection has favored red hair for millennia, suggesting redheads may become more common as ...