Human genetic diversity and evolution rely on new mutations and exchange of DNA between chromosomes during the generation of sex cells, in a process called recombination. Recombination manifests as ...

Scientists find genetic mutation, millions of years ago. Oct. 12, 2011 — -- About three million years ago human predecessors embarked on a new course that would forever alter the evolution of our ...

Have you ever wondered why you are the way that you are? The story of human evolution is well-understood…if you’re a man. But women have been infamously understudied by scientists. That is finally ...

Skull from Hubei Province is about a million years old Researchers conducted digital reconstruction on skull Study has implications for Homo sapiens lineage timeline Sept 25 (Reuters) - In 1990, an ...

Humans were living in rainforests roughly 150,000 years ago, some 80,000 years earlier than was previously thought—and may have been an important center for early human evolution. This is the ...