A study suggests that Homo sapiens may have benefited from the use of ochre and tailored clothing during a period of increased UV light 41,000 years ago, during the Laschamps excursion. Ancient ...

As US President Donald Trump takes aim at the Smithsonian Institution for "anti-American ideology", Adam Rutherford examines what the science of genetics has taught us about race. When scientists ...

By analyzing the DNA of two 7,000-year-old ... Smallest Arm Bone in Human Fossil Record Sheds Light on the Dawn of Homo Floresiensis Aug. 6, 2024 — A new study reports the discovery of ...

They named her Homo floresiensis and nicknamed her the "Hobbit," after the diminutive villagers from J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy. The team has since recovered bones from as many as ...

Potential treatments need to be subject to the highest standards of safety and efficacy. Transplanting dopamine-releasing neurons into the brain is a promising regenerative therapy for Parkinson ...

Instead of using this cloning technology, scientists who are working on mammoth de-extinction are using new molecular tools to edit the genomes of elephants so that some of their DNA sequences ...

Techniques include both the analysis of fossils and the behaviour, morphology and genetics of living humans. Here, authors reveal the anatomy of the chimpanzee arcuate fasciculus predicts use of ...

Epigenetic marks are chemical modifications that help regulate genetic expression without directly altering DNA sequence in the makeup of genes. While the genetic code is like a computer’s hardware, ...

This week, the Curiosity rover found large carbon deposits on Mars, suggesting an ancient carbon cycle. Researchers exploring the domestication of cats believe they may have originally pounced out ...

Artificial intelligence and phylogenetics helped scientists revise the evolutionary timeline of bacteria.