A specific gene variant seen in people is likely one of many that contributed to the development of language in modern humans ...

The more we discover about our species' family tree, the harder it becomes to pinpoint when exactly Homo sapiens emerged, ...

The date was February 3, 1925. The Star, a daily South African newspaper, featured a story on an exciting scientific discovery – the fossilized skull of a species with a mixture of human-like ...

Neighbor-Joining tree of red cell blood group alleles in Upper Paleolithic H. sapiens, Neandertals and Denisova. Each branch received 100% of 1,000 bootstraps iterations. Bold black, H. sapiens ...

It's long been thought our species was unique in its ability to adapt to harsh climates like bone-dry deserts or thick-set rainforests. Now a new study suggests at least some of our ancestors were ...

This illustration does not describe early man blood types, but represents red blood cells in general. (Credit: Corona Borealis Studio/Shutterstock) We can now track the spread of humanity by following ...

Tom is a writer in London with a Master's degree in Journalism whose editorial work covers anything from health and the environment to technology and archaeology. People’s blood group is all ...