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

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

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

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

Scientists analyze 22,000 genomes documenting hundreds of genetic changes due to natural selection over the past 10,000 years ...

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 ...

A skull fragment discovered over fifty years ago on the banks of the Elbe River in Germany has finally yielded its secrets. Long considered by some researchers to be a rare Neanderthal-modern human ...

Why do 90% of humans reach with the same hand? The answer stretches back millions of years and involves fossils, language and ...