Since the human genome was first sequenced in 2003, the world's scientific community has been racing to decipher this "book" written in an alphabet of four letters.

A pioneering international genomics study has revealed that ancient Asians were responsible for the longest prehistoric ...

New DNA from the last Neanderthal challenges everything we thought about human evolution.

An international genomics study led by scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) at the Singapore Center for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) and ...

A large-scale genome study shows that Indigenous peoples in the Americas split off several times, resulting in loss of important genetic diversity.

A special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B takes a bold step toward redefining one of the most ...

With Thomas Mackenbrock, Global Deputy CEO, and Anish Mukker, CEO of Teleperformance in India, on how AI is redefining the ...

We now have full genome sequences for six species of apes, helping us to pin down our last common ancestor – and potentially ...

Scientists have found new evidence for how our fossil human relatives in South Africa may have used their hands. Researchers investigated variation in finger bone morphology to determine that South ...

Both ancient human species showed signs of simultaneously using their hands to move around – such as by climbing trees – as ...

The beginning of Homo sapiens belief in gods did not start with a sense of awe, as primitive human beings observed the sun and moon with a sense of wonder. That is too philosophical. More likely it ...