Learn more about new research that analyzed 16,000 ancient genomes and discovered that natural selection hasn’t slowed down.

While it’s certainly a possibility, it’s very, very unlikely we’ll witness a new species of human evolve in the near future.

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...

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 ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

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 ...

Our bodies are not perfectly designed, but are a living archive of evolution. Anatomy reveals a historical record of ...