According to the study, our ancestors split from a group 1.5 million years ago and rejoined them 300,000 years ago.

The influence of an unknown population and its impact on intelligence was discovered in our DNA by researchers using a new ...

Although the brain represents only 2% of body weight, it consumes 20% of our energy. A recent study sheds light on the ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

Humans have unique brain connections affecting emotions, social intelligence, and language, unlike chimpanzees or macaques.

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.

Space changes the human body in many ways. From bone loss to bloated faces, here's how microgravity and radiation affect the ...

This unknown population contributed 20% of our DNA and may have boosted humans' brain function. "The fact that we can ...

New methods using DNA from living humans, however, have opened a clearer ... particularly those related to brain function and neural processing, may have played a crucial role in human evolution." ...

UCLA Health researchers say study findings uncover Huntington's disease mechanisms and pave new ways to develop treatments.