Prehistoric humans in Africa may have avoided areas infested with malaria-spreading mosquitoes, a new study suggests.

A new study shows the virus could have doubled the frequency of genetic variants in a South African province if effective ...

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

This overview traces the evolutionary timeline from the great apes to modern humans, explaining where hominids and hominins ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reconstruction of the crushed skull labelled Yunxian 2, which has features that are closer to species thought to have existed ...

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

Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution ...

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

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