Two Distinct Groups Mated Over Hundreds and Thousands of Years to Give Us the Modern Humans Human evolution has always been a ...

Neanderthals lost genetic diversity around 110,000 years ago. Researchers confirmed this by studying fossilized inner ears.

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A specific gene variant seen in people is likely one of many that contributed to the development of language in modern humans ...

New research suggests a genetic variant in the NOVA1 protein may have played a key role in the emergence of human speech.

Short snouts and a flat profile - within a span of 100 years, humans have significantly changed the shape of the skulls of ...

Scientists have identified NOVA1, a unique human language gene that may have played a key role in the evolution of spoken ...

The findings demonstrate how strongly humans can influence the evolution of animals. "Charles Darwin assumed that long periods of time—millions of years—are required for major changes to take ...