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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

A study finds an increase in redheads over 10,000 years due to natural selection, highlighting ongoing human evolution and ...

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 ...

The research, part of the Indigenous American Genomic Diversity Project, combined newly sequenced genomes with existing databases to analyze a total of 199 contemporary Indigenous individuals from 53 ...

As resistance increased, humans began moving into high-risk areas. Around 14,000 to 13,000 years ago, people started living ...

Why do 90% of humans reach with the same hand? The answer stretches back millions of years and involves fossils, language and ...