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 ...
Prehistoric humans in Africa may have avoided areas infested with malaria-spreading mosquitoes, a new study suggests.
New research into Upper Paleolithic fossils from western Eurasia suggests that hybridization between ancient human groups was ...
Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act ...
A new study shows the virus could have doubled the frequency of genetic variants in a South African province if effective ...
Angela Pelster is well-recognized in the literary community for her work. On April 14, she published her collection of essays ...
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.
Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution ...
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 ...
How do our genes determine our appearance and our susceptibility to disease? This question is central to biomedical research, ...
A landmark DNA analysis has overturned the long-standing theory that modern humans arose from a single ancestral population ...