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

Human evolution did not come to a halt after prehistoric times. New evidence suggests it may have picked up pace, reshaping ...

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

New 3D analysis of a German skull clears up decades of confusion, placing this human firmly in the modern family tree.

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

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...

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

Scientists previously thought only a handful of genes showed signs of selection in recent human evolution, but previous ...

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

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

From epic poetry to game shows, from Stone Age axes to spaceflight, humans have the most complex cultures of any species on Earth. Since the time of Darwin, scientists have suspected that this culture ...