Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

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

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

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

There was a moment in human history when our entire existence may have desperately clung to a thousand or more people.

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.

Multiple groundbreaking studies are rewriting timelines of human evolution, from genetic adaptations over the last 10,000 ...

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

Research into human genomic diversity has a number of applications in biomedicine, evolution, and history. However, many ...

The whole world could soon be seeing red. Instead of being the punchline, redheads will have the last laugh, as a new study ...

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