When our distant ancestors first traded nomadic life for farming, villages, and permanent homes, you might assume that the beastly forces of natural selection lost their ability to shape our species, ...

A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...

It would be tempting to believe that human evolution has slowed since our ancestors left Africa 300,000 years ago. Yet a new ...

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

The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

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. By Carl ...

But new DNA analysis from 15,836 ancient human remains suggests that humans not only are evolving at pace, but that being ginger may in fact be a desirable trait – at least as far as natural selection ...

(Westend61/Getty Images) The DNA blueprint we carry around with us today has been influenced far more by natural selection ...

Humans are the only primates with a chin, leaving biologists to wonder why we acquired this unique feature. According to a new analysis of head anatomy in apes, it probably didn’t evolve for a ...