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

The DNA blueprint we carry around with us today has been influenced far more by natural selection than we thought, a massive ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe. Using advanced analysis based ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA indicates that natural selection continued to shape hundreds of genes.

The evolutionary success of our species may have hinged on minute changes to our brain biochemistry after we diverged from the lineage leading to Neanderthals and Denisovans about half a million years ...

Two landmark genomic studies have unveiled unprecedented insights into human evolution, revealing both the largest-ever Indigenous American genetic dataset and hundreds of recent genetic adaptations ...

A study using ancient DNA has identified notable evolutionary adjustments to dietary, settlement, disease and other changes ...

How do our genes determine our appearance and our susceptibility to disease? This question is central to biomedical research, ...