A new study reveals that a mysterious human ancestors contributed 20% of modern human genes, potentially enhancing brain ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

Mice are still incapable of writing the complete works of Shakespeare, despite some being given a human "language gene".

A small team of computational and evolutionary biologists from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongshan ...

New genetic research suggests that humans first developed language around 135,000 years ago when populations began ...

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

The scientist who went to prison for gene hacking a pair of twins in China is now decrying the ethics that punished him.

CDKL5, one of the five members of the CDKL family of genes, is important for proper neurodevelopment and associated with ...

The small study in patients with a rare disorder that causes liver and lung damage showed the potential for precisely ...

Researchers have deepened our understanding of two of the five members of the CDKL family of genes, CDKL2 and CDKL1. They show that variants in these genes can lead to neurodevelopmental conditions, ...

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.