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

The evolutionary case for eating meat is etched into human anatomy — but so is the case against it. The science deserves more ...

There was a moment in human history when our entire existence may have desperately clung to a thousand or more people.

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

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

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

Scientists analyze 22,000 genomes documenting hundreds of genetic changes due to natural selection over the past 10,000 years ...

Over the past 10,000 years, evolution in West Eurasia has selected for light skin, red hair and resistance to HIV in humans, ...

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 ...

A skull fragment discovered over fifty years ago on the banks of the Elbe River in Germany has finally yielded its secrets. Long considered by some researchers to be a rare Neanderthal-modern human ...

Why do 90% of humans reach with the same hand? The answer stretches back millions of years and involves fossils, language and ...

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