In her new show, Ella Al-Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our ...

New fruit fly research provides the first direct evidence of “dominance reversal,” revealing why pesticide resistance is so hard to eliminate in changing environments.

Researchers have identified two pivotal genetic shifts in human evolution that reshaped the pelvis, facilitating bipedal locomotion. By studying embryonic tissues, scientists revealed innovations ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Bipedal locomotion - walking upright on two legs - is a fundamental trait underpinning humankind's success. Scientists now have identified two innovations that occurred long ago ...

One of the biggest mysteries in human evolution has just been solved. In 2010, a groundbreaking genetic analysis revealed that east Asia was once home to a previously unknown group of enigmatic ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study published in Cell Genomics, researchers at Lund University in Sweden show ...

Fossil teeth found in Ethiopia point to a new human species. Credit: Brian Villmoare / CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Scientists have identified a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary line, based on ...