A major discovery in West Africa is rewriting human history—archaeologists have found stone tools dating back 150,000 years ...

Results of a study show convergent genetic adaptation under hypoxia (lack of oxygen) between populations living at ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran ...

"This work uncovered novel adaptive signatures in genes related to diet, immune response and cellular activity, offering precise insights into the evolutionary pressures shaping great ape genomes," ...

Genetic analysis reveals that dire wolves are not gray wolves’ ancestors but a separate species, reshaping evolutionary ...

Scientists from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have compared several methods for plant diversity ...

Thanks to a combination of genetic, palaeoecological, and archaeological evidence, scientists have uncovered that the Persian Plateau served as a vital hub for Homo sapiens during the early stages of ...

Tim Birkhead on great auks and their extraordinary story of evolution, exploitation and de-extinction across the years ...

In a new study published in Developmental Cell on April 8, a research team led by Prof. WU Qingfeng at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has ...

DNA sequences for the chimpanzee, orangutans and more will help scientists to determine what sets humans apart from other ...