Banaras Hindu University (BHU), in collaboration with the Anthropological Survey of India (AnSI), will host a landmark two-day symposium titled BHU-AnSI Paleogenomics and Paleoarchaeology Symposium on ...

Humans really are everywhere. More than any other vertebrate species, we have managed to quickly spread across the planet and ...

The question of origins has long bedevilled the study of pandemics. In pre-modern times, outbreaks of infectious disease were ...

Scientists discover a genetic adaptation in Kenya’s Turkana people that helps them survive drinking much less water without ...

Two fossil skulls found in central China are prompting fresh debate over when they lived – and where they belong in the human family tree.

A new analysis of genetic studies proposes that the cognitive capacity for language was already present at least 135,000 years ago.

Compared with human-specific transcriptional factors, human-specific lncRNAs identified upon human lncRNAs’ orthologs in mammals have greatly evolved DNA-binding sites in archaic and modern humans in ...

A study published in the journal Science reveals how jumping fragments of human DNA, a type of genetic parasite, destabilize the cancer genome. Unstable genomes are a fertile playground for cancer ...

Humans are fundamentally "musical animals"—and our capacity for music is rooted in biology, not just culture. This is the conclusion of new work by University of Amsterdam professor of Music Cognition ...

New research that decoded the evolution of mosquitoes’ feeding habits from DNA could shed light on the murky timeline of prehistoric human ancestors.

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.