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

A new genetic study shows that cultural diversity in the so-called Southern Cone—the roughly triangular southernmost part of ...

Dryopithecus is one of the most mysterious extinct ape genera ever found in Europe, known from fossils discovered in France, ...

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

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...

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

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

Nearly 100 million years ago, snakes weren’t the sleek, limbless creatures we know today—they still had hind legs and even a ...

Lucy left audiences questioning what happens when the human brain reaches its full potential. Now, a possible sequel raises even bigger questions about evolution and consciousness. Scarlett ...

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It might not be a coincidence that one of the most interesting geologic locations in the world is also palaeoanthropology’s ...