When our distant ancestors first traded nomadic life for farming, villages, and permanent homes, you might assume that the ...

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

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

Gingers have been typecast throughout history. Aristotle believed red hair to be a sign of courage, while writers of the ...

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

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

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

The whole world could soon be seeing red. Instead of being the punchline, redheads will have the last laugh, as a new study ...

Millions of years ago, the natural environment was shaping us into the species we are now and humans evolved by natural selection. But as humans continue to evolve, we've turned the notion of natural ...

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

A new study has highlighted how reproductive biology and human behavior influence the number of children a person might have. This research, which has identified genetic factors that impact human ...

A large-scale genetic study of nearly 16,000 ancient and modern West Eurasians has identified hundreds of gene variants shaped by natural selection over the past 10,000 years, including those linked ...