There is something almost comforting about the old, schoolbook version of human origins. It had a single ancestral population ...

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

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

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

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

New research into Upper Paleolithic fossils from western Eurasia suggests that hybridization between ancient human groups was not a rare side event, but a major force in human evolution. By comparing ...

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

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

Over the past 10,000 years, evolution in West Eurasia has selected for light skin, red hair and resistance to HIV in humans, according to a new study.

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 ...

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

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.