Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act ...
Eastern Africa's Turkana Rift is both a hotbed for fossil discoveries of our earliest ancestors and a literal hotbed of ...
Over the past 10,000 years, evolution in West Eurasia has selected for light skin, red hair and resistance to HIV in humans, ...
New 3D analysis of a German skull clears up decades of confusion, placing this human firmly in the modern family tree.
A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...
A study finds an increase in redheads over 10,000 years due to natural selection, highlighting ongoing human evolution and ...
A growing number of discoveries are reshaping long-held ideas about human evolution, from unexpectedly early stone tools to ...
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 ...
Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, ...
Ancient DNA reveals how farming accelerated human evolution, driving genetic changes over the past 10,000 years.
Researchers at almost 100 institutions supported the creation of the Max Planck Institute-funded EVApeCognition Dataset – ...
Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...