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 ...

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

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reconstruction of the crushed skull labelled Yunxian 2, which has features that are closer to species thought to have existed ...

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

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

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

A landmark Nature study analyzing nearly 16,000 ancient and modern genomes from West Eurasia reveals that natural selection ...

Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the biggest mysteries is understanding how large or small ancient human populations ...

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 ...