Researchers took teeth from eight different groups and analyzed them as they believe the evolution of tooth shape takes place ...

A ceremony to worship Huangdi, a legendary common ancestor of the Chinese people, is held in Xinzheng City, central China's ...

While the Cambrian Explosion kickstarted complex life in a major way some 530 million years, the true timeline of life on Earth is much longer. For years, scientists have estimate ...

BEIJING -- Compatriots across the Taiwan Strait will attend events honoring China's legendary ancestor Huangdi, or the Yellow ...

New research shows that all blue-eyed people share a common ancestor. This person lived more than 6,000 years ago and carried a genetic mutation that has now spread across the world. The exact ...

University of Tokyo researchers have investigated the origin and dispersal scenarios of Homo sapiens into East Eurasia. The team examined how migration routes, genetic contributions from archaic ...

In this evolutionary tree, species A and B share a recent common ancestor. Species A is therefore most similar to species B. Species F and G also share a recent, common ancestor, however this ...

We don't just have sex to reproduce—new research suggests that using sex to manage social tension could be a trait that existed in the common ancestor of humans and apes six million years ago.