A study of women and girls in a part of South Africa with high levels of HIV infection has shown that the virus has the ...

When our distant ancestors first traded nomadic life for farming, villages, and permanent homes, you might assume that the ...

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

Ancient DNA reveals how farming accelerated human evolution, driving genetic changes 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 massive study of ancient DNA from nearly 16,000 people across more than 10,000 years in West Eurasia reveals that natural ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA indicates that natural selection continued to shape hundreds of genes.

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil electrified the ...