Are humans natural born runners? Here’s why evolutionary and anatomical evidence suggests running was more central to our ...

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

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

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

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

The hiccups you’ve been cursing since lunch are older than you could ever possibly imagine — a ghost signal from ancestors ...

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

In 2001 scientists studying human language made a breakthrough: by looking at the DNA of a family with a rare speech ...

A new study finds natural selection has reshaped hundreds of human genes in the past 10,000 years, driven by farming, disease ...

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

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 ...