Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, ...

A new study maps infectious diseases across millennia and offers new insight into how human-animal interactions permanently transformed our health landscape.

Ancient DNA evidence shows that the advent of agriculture led to more infectious disease among humans, with pathogens from ...

When hunter-gatherers began living close to animals, the pathogens that cause the plague and leprosy got closer too.

Gorillas are another animal that share DNA with humans. They share 98 percent of our genes and it is believed that we humans came from the same ancestors as gorillas. 4. Orangutans.

How researchers measure the logical reasoning of monkeys, pigeons, rats, fish and wasps shapes how they understand mental ...

"With over 90 gigabases (in other words, 90 billion bases), the DNA of the South American species is the largest of all animal genomes and more than twice as large as the genome of the previous ...

Sofia Ceva '25, Katelyn Santa Maria '26 and Sofia Vera Verduzco '25 M.S. '25 co-organized Friday's conference on distress relief in humans and animals.

Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ancestral group in Africa, dating back 200,000 to 300,000 years. But ...

Researchers have mapped the spread of infectious diseases in humans across millennia, to reveal how human-animal interactions permanently transformed our ...

Researchers have mapped the spread of infectious diseases in humans across millennia, to reveal how human-animal interactions permanently transformed ...