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

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.

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

A new Harvard University study has found that humans are still evolving - and red hair genetics suggest we are evolving into ...

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

For years, the story of recent human evolution looked relatively quiet. Scientists studying ancient human DNA had found only ...

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

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe. Using advanced analysis based ...

The human body is full of evolutionary compromises. The loss of the tail may be one of the clearest examples of how change ...

From the ability to detect the smell of wet soil to the scent of ripe fruit, the human olfactory system has evolved over ...