"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

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

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ancestral lineages.

The data used in the study are from the 1000 Genomes Project, a global initiative that sequenced ... may have played a crucial role in human evolution," said Cousins. The study also found that genes ...

The story of human evolution just took a dramatic turn ... By applying this method to human DNA datasets from the 1000 Genomes Project and the Human Genome Diversity Project, they uncovered ...

MailOnline's graphic below shows this 'hidden chapter' in human evolution spanning from 1.5 ... the team used data from the 1000 Genomes Project, a global initiative that sequenced DNA from ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson explains what the future of human evolution will look like. Follow TI: On Facebook StarTalk Radio is a podcast and radio program hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson ...

This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight ... The fossil record, along with studies of human and ape DNA, indicate that humans shared ...

The genetic information in an organism is called its genome. The Human Genome Project, or HGP for short, was started at the end of the last century. It was very ambitious and had several aims ...

“These findings open a new line of research in the study of human evolution in Europe ... co-director of the Atapuerca Project. The fossil was assigned the provisional name Homo affinis erectus ...

co-director of the Atapuerca Project focused on human evolution. Little is known about Europe's earliest human residents. There are fossils commonly attributed to Homo erectus dating to 1.8 ...

The data used in the study is from the 1000 Genomes Project, a global initiative ... may have played a crucial role in human evolution," said Cousins. The study also found that genes inherited ...