The evolutionary success of our species may have hinged on minute changes to our brain biochemistry after we diverged from the lineage leading to Neanderthals and Denisovans about half a million years ...

A Scotsman's plea for information about distant relatives who resided in the Kakabeka Falls and Conmee areas a century ago hasn't fallen on deaf ears. Andrew Lindsay, who lives on ...

Here is a look at English's family and upbringing, from his wife and daughter to his parents and deep Georgia roots.

She was born into Bollywood royalty, married into one of India’s richest business families, yet carved her own path to become ...

Your name might carry more history than you think. These 30 surnames still found across the North of England could mean ...

The team is "here to stay," no matter what, lead researcher Keith Bowers said, amid federal funding changes for scientific research.

There are many possible lives we could live but the use of Plath’s fig analogy to explore this idea is not quite right.

A DNA test can uncover your ancestry and connect you to relatives, but it can also expose family secrets and raise privacy ...

A typical trust would provide for a share going to each living child and a share to the descendants of any pre-deceased child ...

Ant-eating mammals evolved independently over a dozen times since the fall of the dinosaurs.

Paul Radford of the Somerset and Dorset Society takes a deep dive into the past in search of the Dorset’s oldest surnames ...

When conditions are just right, organisms can undergo rapid bursts of diversification, and what starts out as one species can end up as an entire ...