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 ...
Learn more about new research that analyzed 16,000 ancient genomes and discovered that natural selection hasn’t slowed down.
Ancient DNA reveals how farming accelerated human evolution, driving genetic changes over the past 10,000 years.
A massive ancient DNA study reveals evolution didn’t stop — it sped up, reshaping human genes in just 10000 years ...
Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...
Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, ...
Genetic information from the "Dragon Man" skull has linked the fossil, found in China, to the Denisovans. - Hebei GEO University Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60 ...
This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...
Frequent burn exposure may have driven human genetic adaptations that improve healing but worsen severe injury outcomes.