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

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

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

The human body is full of evolutionary compromises. The loss of the tail may be one of the clearest examples of how change ...

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

Wisdom teeth are more than just an uncomfortable dentist appointment. They are evidence of how human evolution cherry-picked ...

The human body is often described as a marvel of "perfect design": elegant, efficient and finely tuned for its purpose. Yet, ...

At first glance, dragonflies and humans seem to have nothing in common. However, a new study has shown that this is not the ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

Frequent burn exposure may have driven human genetic adaptations that improve healing but worsen severe injury outcomes.

What if humans could produce venom just like some mammals? Evolution is an unstoppable force, and as our species continues to change, the possibility of developing venomous traits might not be as ...