New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

Scientists have uncovered surprising clues hidden deep in human DNA, and the findings are forcing experts to rethink a ...

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

A landmark Harvard-led study analyzing nearly 16,000 ancient genomes from West Eurasia reveals that natural selection has ...

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

A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...

New research shows human language evolved through ancient genetic systems that regulate genes, challenging the previous idea.

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

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...

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

Learn more about new research that analyzed 16,000 ancient genomes and discovered that natural selection hasn’t slowed down.

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