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 ...

Neanderthal toddlers grew faster than their modern human counterparts, likely as an adaptation to living in a cold, harsh environment, new research suggests. The discovery, which was made using the ...

Researchers studied ancient tooth fossils and found that a gene mutation in modern humans (right) better protected them against lead and gave them an advantage over Neanderthals (left). Kyle Dykes / ...

Researchers have identified tiny genetic “switches” that appear to play a surprisingly large role in human language ability.

Neanderthal babies may have physically dwarfed their Homo sapiens counterparts, according to a new study that examined an infant skeleton of one of our ancient hominin relatives. “We cannot say how ...

Scientists have identified a gene that may have played a role in the emergence of spoken language in modern humans, or Homo sapiens. Homo erectus genetic material sequenced for the first time, and it ...