But a novel technique is allowing us to peer back further than DNA's expiration date in Africa, to answer long-standing ...

The process of evolution usually takes thousands, millions or even billions of years. But researchers have found a way to ...

Directed evolution is usually a laborious process that often takes weeks in which proteins rapidly evolve and develop ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...

Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our ...

A newly discovered Denisovan gene, hidden within human DNA, may have helped the first Americans adapt to their new world. Thousands of years ago, early humans braved a dangerous migration, traveling ...

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, research finds.

Early studies relied on the DNA of modern people to make inferences about evolution, but these methods could detect only events that had lasting effects.

Thousands of years ago, ancient humans undertook a treacherous journey, crossing hundreds of miles of ice over the Bering ...

But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses that embedded themselves into our genetic code over the course of human evolution.