We've long assumed our species evolved from a tidy, single stream of ancestors. But life on Earth is never quite so ...

A new study reveals that a mysterious human ancestors contributed 20% of modern human genes, potentially enhancing brain ...

a human genetic code would fill the pages of 200 1,000-page New York City telephone directories. Though we can't compile all the facts here, this list of mind-boggling facts and figures will get ...

Researchers used large-scale evolutionary modeling to integrate data on human genes with genetic ... base allows scientists to go from just a list of genes to an understanding of their biological ...

As genetics allows us to turn the tide on human disease, it's also granting ... is the fear that those people who do not possess the genes for a positive trait may develop a negative self-image ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

Ultimately, families and individuals were deemed either "fit" or "unfit" based on the eugenic belief that complex human traits were controlled by single genes and therefore inherited in a ...