The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

Over the past 10,000 years, evolution in West Eurasia has been selecting for light skin, red hair and resistance to HIV and ...

Ancient DNA reveals how farming accelerated human evolution, driving genetic changes over the past 10,000 years.

Learn more about new research that analyzed 16,000 ancient genomes and discovered that natural selection hasn’t slowed down.

Scientists previously thought only a handful of genes showed signs of selection in recent human evolution, but previous ...

A study finds an increase in redheads over 10,000 years due to natural selection, highlighting ongoing human evolution and ...

When you think about evolution, what comes to mind? Certainly, things like opposable thumbs are one factor here; so too is ...

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...

New 3D analysis of a German skull clears up decades of confusion, placing this human firmly in the modern family tree.

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...