A new study suggests culture is reshaping human evolution faster than DNA, redefining how our species adapts, survives, and ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

An international team of scientists has revealed how rogue rings of DNA that float outside of our chromosomes—known as ...

The Indigenous peoples of the Bolivian highlands are survivors. For thousands of years they have lived at altitudes of more than two miles, where oxygen is about 35 percent lower than at sea level.

The evolutionary blueprint for hands was borrowed in part from a much older genetic plan for our nether regions, a new study ...