All life on Earth shares a common ancestor that lived roughly four billion years ago. This so-called "last universal common ...

Life’s story may stretch further back than scientists once thought. Some genes found in nearly every organism today were already duplicated before all life shared a common ancestor. By tracking these ...

An international study investigating the genomic diversity of the Sudanese population reveals that the Copts originating in ...

Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic ...