In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...

Homo floresiensis: Lived between approximately 700,000 – 50,000 years ago. Fossil remains found exclusively on the island of Flores in Indonesia.

These 700,000-year-old remains offer unprecedented insights into the mysterious lineage of Homo floresiensis, the so-called ...

Let’s debunk these common myths about our early human ancestors—and take a look at what makes our species, ‘Homo sapiens,’ so different from them. Let’s dig deep into a few ...

Homo floresiensis and Homo luzonensis, described in 2003 and 2019, respectively, emerged in Southeast Asia at least 60,000 years ago.

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

Get our newsletter! The Dragon Man skull, described as Homo longi in 2021, belongs to a Denisovan, according to new research. Fu et al., Cell, 2025 ...

The COVID Human Genetic Effort started recruiting volunteers last year, with a focus on healthcare workers who were exposed to the virus but didn’t get infected, and healthy adults living in a ...

In the latest step to tackle biology’s data scaling law, Basecamp Research has announced BaseData, the largest database for sequence-based model training, composed of 9.8 billion new protein ...

Genetic markers are DNA sequences with known physical locations on chromosomes. They are points of variation that can be used to identify individuals or species, or may be used to associate an ...

The genome includes both the genes and the non-coding sequences of the DNA. The term was adapted in 1920 by Hans Winkler, Professor of Botany at the University of Hamburg, Germany.