New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have ...

Humans have selectively bred animals and crops since the beginning of agriculture, but advances in biotechnology have provided genetic tools to select specific traits. First applied to animals in the ...

For over a thousand years, the story of human evolution was simple: Homo sapiens developed in Africa between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago from a single line of forebears. But today, one research has ...

There is no animal that physically looks exactly like we humans but with research, it has been confirmed over the years that certain animals are genetically related to us. Their reactions sometimes ...

Horses have played a critical role in shaping human society, but scientists are still piecing together the story of their domestication. Reading time 3 minutes Roughly 4,500 years ago, humans forged a ...

Ancient humans crossing the Bering Strait into the Americas carried more than tools and determination—they also carried a genetic legacy from Denisovans, an extinct human relative. A new study reveals ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don’t know much about who got with whom, or why. A new ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - A new study that examined animal species with a cancer resistance gene could provide help for human cancer research. Scientists have long been intrigued by Peto’s Paradox, which ...

An ad hoc committee appointed by the National Academies to explore heritable genetic modifications of food animals. This committee will address methods for heritable genetic modifications and identify ...