New research by Smithsonian scientists suggests that preferences for certain sounds might be evolutionarily conserved ...

The 2010 discovery that early humans and Neanderthals once encountered one another and had babies was a scientific bombshell that electrified the field of human origins. Now, geneticists at the ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Humans don’t have a defined mating season like deer or wolves. Here’s how evolution rewired ...

Scientists say DNA evidence indicates male Neanderthals and human females interbred more often than opposite Tens of thousands of years ago, as modern humans migrated into northerly territories ...

The human genome is a complex record of migration, evolution, and ancestry written over thousands of millennia. Now, new genomic research by members of Sarah Tishkoff’s lab at the University of ...