A groundbreaking study of the Skhūl I skull challenges our understanding of early human evolution.

Images released ahead of a new BBC science series depict Homo floresiensis, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis plus the ...

Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and ...

DNA makes RNA, RNA makes protein, protein makes phenotype—was the guiding framework for understanding inheritance and disease ...

When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...

PROTEUS, a system designed to harness “directed evolution,” can speed the process up by years, or even decades.

One study is of enamel proteins from extinct mammal fossils from the Turkana Basin in Kenya, and the other study is of enamel proteins from extinct mammals in the Haughton impact crater site located ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, ...

Researchers have described proteins that they say are among the most ancient ever sequenced. Two teams, which analysed ...

Researchers from the University of Sydney have developed a system that mimics natural selection inside living mammalian cells ...

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

The five-part BBC series examines how we, as Homo sapiens, went from being just one of many types of human to becoming the ...