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

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

This overview traces the evolutionary timeline from the great apes to modern humans, explaining where hominids and hominins ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

As near as paleontologists can tell, evolution has been proceeding apace for 3.5 billion years, give or take. From the emergence of the humble single-cell organism that served as the last universal ...