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.

The first Human Genome Project — which was an international consortium funded by the US National Institutes of Health among others — published the world’s first complete human genome in 2003. Since ...

In Olduvai Gorge, archaeologists have discovered a range of bone tools thought to have been made and used by an ancestral human species of hominid called Homo habilis 1.5 million years ago. Known as ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A new fossil discovery of Paranthropus robustus, an early human ancestor, reveals it was a habitual upright walker, similar to modern humans. The individual was ...

HERVs account for 8% of human genome, and the majority of HERVs are solitary LTRs (solo-LTRs) due to homologous recombination. Multiple findings have showed that solo-LTRs could provide an enormous ...

Bryan Johnson, bio hacker, founder, Project Blueprint ... are the protective caps at the ends of the chromosomes in the human genome. Each time a cell divides, a piece of telomere is lost ...

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Francis Collins, a renowned geneticist and former longtime director of the National Institutes of Health, has retired, leaving the US agency that's being upended by budget cuts and layoffs.