Scientists who analysed nearly 16,000 ancient remains suggest red hair and fair skin is favoured for vitamin D production ...

The whole world could soon be seeing red. Instead of being the punchline, redheads will have the last laugh, as a new study ...

For years, the story of recent human evolution looked relatively quiet. Scientists studying ancient human DNA had found only ...

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

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

A new study finds natural selection has reshaped hundreds of human genes in the past 10,000 years, driven by farming, disease ...

A new research study has revealed that natural selection is driving a surge in redheads. A team of researchers from Harvard ...

A massive study of ancient genomes has revealed that natural selection acted on hundreds of human genes throughout recent ...

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