The scientific wonderers at What If fast-forward through millions of years of primate development to show the path that led ...

The idea behind this claim is that once humans achieved large enough brains and developed sophisticated cultures, cultural ...

A study finds an increase in redheads over 10,000 years due to natural selection, highlighting ongoing human evolution and ...

Furthermore, a white sclera acts as a transparent health billboard. Diseases like hepatitis quickly turn the white tissue ...

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

Did humans lose their sense of smell? A study on the Orang Asli people reveals that hunter-gatherers maintain ancestral smell ...

There is strong scientific consensus surrounding this story and it is informed by multiple converging lines of evidence.

The human genome of West Eurasia has been far more affected by natural selection in the last 10,000 years than previously ...

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

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

Francis Collins explains why many of history’s greatest scientists believed faith and science could work together.

This important study advances a new computational approach to measure and visualize gene expression specificity across different tissues and cell types. The framework is potentially helpful for ...