The increased risk is slight, but aligns with a longstanding hypothesis that having more cells in one’s body leads to more chances for those cells to become cancerous.

Modern humans retain DNA sequences from Neanderthals related to fighting off RNA-based viruses.

He was known for his work on the gene-culture theory of human evolution and the Human Genome Diversity Project.

Contrary to earlier results, FOXP2 did not undergo a “selective sweep” as humans developed language, a study finds.

The dating of stone tools in China puts members of the Homo genus there more than 2 million years ago.

The function of early hominins’ enlarged brow ridges, and their reduction in size in Homo sapiens, have puzzled paleoanthropologists for decades.

A study of Shuar children in Ecuador provides a window into how the human body responds to infection in the sorts of conditions that shaped our species’ evolution.

Three members of a gene family called NOTCH2NL may have been involved in the evolution of humans’ big cortex.

Analyses of more than 300 ancient human genomes show that Hepatitis B virus has infected humans for at least 4,500 years and has much older origins than modern viral genomes would suggest.