Life on Earth had to begin somewhere, and scientists think that “somewhere” is LUCA—or the Last Universal Common Ancestor.

Turtles and tortoises are thought to have evolved from a common ancestor of dinosaurs around ... Birds as a group are the ...

Cambridge University researchers have uncovered evidence that two distinct populations of ancient hominins, separated for ...

Humans share this behavioral strategy with our closest living ape relatives ... social purposes was already present in the ...

Among the great apes, our closest relatives are the chimpanzees and bonobos (Figure 1). The fossil record, along with studies of human and ape DNA, indicate that humans shared a common ancestor ...

Together with an Asian people known as Denisovans, Neanderthals are our closest ancient human relatives. Scientific evidence suggests our two species shared a common ancestor. Current evidence from ...

Analyses of these genomes overwhelmingly support the hypothesis that chimpanzees are our closest relatives ... to the speciation of the last common ancestor of African apes and humans.

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 ...