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 ...

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 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.

A growing number of discoveries are reshaping long-held ideas about human evolution, from unexpectedly early stone tools to ...

Over 100 attendees filled NYU’s annual Darwin Lecture on Monday, where Princeton professor Lindy McBride explored how humans ...

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 ...

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 ...

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