New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

A study of women and girls in a part of South Africa with high levels of HIV infection has shown that the virus has the ...

The evolutionary case for eating meat is etched into human anatomy — but so is the case against it. The science deserves more ...

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

From epic poetry to game shows, from Stone Age axes to spaceflight, humans have the most complex cultures of any species on Earth. Since the time of Darwin, scientists have suspected that this culture ...

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

Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution ...

A series of recent studies using unprecedented ancient DNA datasets have revealed that human evolution is far more complex and recent than previously thought. Findings challenge the idea of a single ...

Many people today simply assume that our evolution has quietly ended with the development of the modern human. It's easy to think that medicine, science, and modern living have made us "perfect" or ...

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

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