The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...
Learn more about new research that analyzed 16,000 ancient genomes and discovered that natural selection hasn’t slowed down.
Ancient DNA reveals how farming accelerated human evolution, driving genetic changes over the past 10,000 years.
The human body is full of evolutionary compromises. The loss of the tail may be one of the clearest examples of how change ...
The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...
From epic poetry to game shows, from Stone Age axes to spaceflight, humans have the most complex cultures of any species on Earth. Since the time of Darwin, scientists have suspected that this culture ...
A new study finds natural selection has reshaped hundreds of human genes in the past 10,000 years, driven by farming, disease ...
This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...
The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...