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

There was a moment in human history when our entire existence may have desperately clung to a thousand or more people.

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

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

Many people today simply assume that our evolution has quietly ended with the development of the modern human. It's easy to think that medicine, science, and modern living have made us "perfect" or ...

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

Multiple groundbreaking studies are rewriting timelines of human evolution, from genetic adaptations over the last 10,000 years to ancient DNA suggesting Neanderthals shared language-related sequences ...

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