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

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

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

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

Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, ...

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

Outbreaks of violence between chimpanzees have sparked fierce debate online about the origins of war in humans ...

Something happened around 4,000 years ago in West Eurasia that made red-haired people more common.

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

Humans for ages believed that wall lizards coexisted in three distinct color types, each with its own strategy for survival.

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

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 ...