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

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

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

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

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

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

Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the biggest mysteries is understanding how large or small ancient human populations ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Humans don’t have a defined mating season like deer or wolves. Here’s how evolution rewired ...