Scientists analyze 22,000 genomes documenting hundreds of genetic changes due to natural selection over the past 10,000 years ...

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

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

A new genetic study shows that cultural diversity in the so-called Southern Cone—the roughly triangular southernmost part of ...

A landmark study of nearly 16,000 ancient genomes from West Eurasia has found that natural selection acted on 479 gene variants over the past 10,000 years, far more than previously known. The findings ...

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

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 ...

Ancient DNA reveals how farming accelerated human evolution, driving genetic changes over the past 10,000 years.

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...

A study finds an increase in redheads over 10,000 years due to natural selection, highlighting ongoing human evolution and ...

New 3D analysis of a German skull clears up decades of confusion, placing this human firmly in the modern family tree.

Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, ...