A groundbreaking study has revealed that human ancestors faced a catastrophic population collapse nearly 930,000 years ago, nearly driving the species to extinction. Researchers utilized modern DNA ...

Human populations have waxed and waned over the millennia, with some cultures exploding and migrating to new areas or new continents, others dropping to such low numbers that their genetic diversity ...

As humans continue to encroach on our planet, we are driving a mass extinction that some experts call a "biological holocaust." Since more and more species are dying, it creates an increasing number ...

An invasive Asian honeybee colony in northern Australia has defied expectations, displaying emergent genetic variation in a short period of time. While bad news for biosecurity agencies, it could be a ...

Neanderthals may have been headed toward their demise much earlier than experts previously thought, new research suggests. In ...

Pictured on the left is the Nile perch, a voracious predator introduced into Lake Victoria by humans to satisfy meat demands in the 1950s. On the right, several species of endemic cichlids that were ...

Arslan A. Zaidi, Peter R. Wilton, Marcia Shu-Wei Su, Ian M. Paul, Barbara Arbeithuber, Kate Anthony, Anton Nekrutenko, Rasmus Nielsen, Kateryna D. Makova Proceedings of the National Academy of ...