Far from being a simple, straight-line evolution, human history is a tangled web of ancient love stories. Newly uncovered genetic evidence suggests our ancestors didn’t just mate with ...

Many people today simply assume that our evolution has quietly ended with the development of the modern human. It's easy to think that medicine, science, and modern living have made us "perfect" or ...

Ice Age humans in what is now Wyoming used bones from hares, bobcats, and mountain lions to craft sewing needles, new research suggests. Reading time 2 minutes While we take the stitching in our ...

Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% of the genomes of non-Africans. Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that ...