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

Are humans natural born runners? Here’s why evolutionary and anatomical evidence suggests running was more central to our ...

Research suggests that crying is not a sign of weakness, but one of the most sophisticated social technologies in the natural ...

At first glance, dragonflies and humans seem to have nothing in common. However, a new study has shown that this is not the ...

A new Harvard University study has found that humans are still evolving - and red hair genetics suggest we are evolving into ...

A massive study of ancient DNA from nearly 16,000 people across more than 10,000 years in West Eurasia reveals that natural ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, finds that the relatively high rate of Autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in ...

Wisdom teeth are more than just an uncomfortable dentist appointment. They are evidence of how human evolution cherry-picked ...

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 ...

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...

UCL scientists found that human skulls evolved much faster than those of other apes, reflecting the powerful forces driving our brain growth and facial flattening. By comparing 3D models of ape skulls ...

Denisovans, a mysterious human relative, left behind far more than a handful of fossils—they left genetic fingerprints in modern humans across the globe. Multiple interbreeding events with distinct ...