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

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

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

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

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

For years, the story of recent human evolution looked relatively quiet. Scientists studying ancient human DNA had found only ...

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...

Scientists previously thought only a handful of genes showed signs of selection in recent human evolution, but previous ...

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

Genetic information from the "Dragon Man" skull has linked the fossil, found in China, to the Denisovans. - Hebei GEO University Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60 ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study published in Cell Genomics, researchers at Lund University in Sweden show ...

Some of your most important life partners are the mitochondria that power all your cells. You and these little cellular ...