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

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 ...

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 ...

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...

For tens of thousands of years, two species — Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans — shared vast landscapes. Occasionally, they crossed paths, and when they did, they left traces of their ...

A new paper by evolutionary anthropologists Colin Shaw (University of Zurich) and Daniel Longman (Loughborough University) argues that modern life has outpaced human evolution. The study suggests that ...

A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, lived about 17 to 18 million years ago and may sit very close to the ancestor of all ...

Not every modern human has the same set of Neanderthal DNA, however; different people will, by chance, have inherited different fragments. But there are also some areas, termed “Neanderthal deserts,” ...

The human body is full of evolutionary compromises. The loss of the tail may be one of the clearest examples of how change ...

Wisdom teeth are more than just an uncomfortable dentist appointment. They are evidence of how human evolution cherry-picked ...