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

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

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

There was a moment in human history when our entire existence may have desperately clung to a thousand or more people.

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

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

A landmark study analyzing nearly 16,000 ancient genomes from West Eurasia has revealed that natural selection accelerated sharply after humans adopted farming. Researchers identified 479 gene ...

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

A new genetic study shows that cultural diversity in the so-called Southern Cone—the roughly triangular southernmost part of ...

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 ...