An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

Although we humans have changed our environment in many ways during the past few thousand years, we are still changed by ...

While it’s often something that opposing fans like to poke fun at, it’s probably about time to celebrate each of the unique uniforms Oregon... Can’t drag us down: On Noah Whittington’s big run, Dan ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...

Looks can be deceiving -- Many trees in the forest : the DNA quest to find our closest ape relative -- The great divorce : how and when did humans and chimpanzees part ways? -- A population crash in ...

Eugene is a city connected with cultures of creators and artisans, communities of outdoorsmen and academics and a modern history dating back to the settlement of Eugene Skinner, the first white ...

New research challenges the long-standing idea that most fixed genetic mutations are neutral. For many years, scientists studying evolution have believed that most genetic changes influencing how ...