Scientists analyze 22,000 genomes documenting hundreds of genetic changes due to natural selection over the past 10,000 years ...

Eastern Africa's Turkana Rift is both a hotbed for fossil discoveries of our earliest ancestors and a literal hotbed of ...

Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act ...

Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, ...

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Something happened around 4,000 years ago in West Eurasia that made red-haired people more common.

A growing number of discoveries are reshaping long-held ideas about human evolution, from unexpectedly early stone tools to ...

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

A skull fragment discovered over fifty years ago on the banks of the Elbe River in Germany has finally yielded its secrets. Long considered by some researchers to be a rare Neanderthal-modern human ...

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

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