University of Michigan researchers have developed a statistical method that can be used for such wide-ranging applications as ...

The HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (http://www.gene.ucl.ac.uk/nomenclature/) has been working to develop a unique symbol, as well as a longer and more descriptive ...

Humans speak more than 7,000 languages today. As different as they all seem, researchers argue in a new review that they all ...

Anthropologist John Hawks from the University of Wisconsin calls the findings "provocative," emphasizing the untapped complexity of East Asia’s human fossil record. Juluren fossils reveal ...

Researchers in Spain have unearthed a fossil from a potential new prehistoric member of the human family tree, and they say it's the earliest known remnants of a face discovered in Western Europe.