Human babies arrive with 100 extra bones for the same reason birth is the most dangerous event in mammalian life. Both facts ...

A Harvard-led study of nearly 16,000 ancient genomes from West Eurasia reveals that natural selection has been far more active in the past 10,000 years than previously believed. Researchers identified ...

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

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

The story of human evolution is far from a straight line — it’s a complex web of species, adaptations, and interconnections.

Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution ...

A new study shows the virus could have doubled the frequency of genetic variants in a South African province if effective ...

Long before humans spread across the globe, a deadly disease may have quietly shaped where our ancestors lived—and even how we evolved. New research reveals that malaria didn’t just threaten early ...

The evolutionary case for eating meat is etched into human anatomy — but so is the case against it. The science deserves more ...

Angela Pelster is well-recognized in the literary community for her work. On April 14, she published her collection of essays ...