When our distant ancestors first traded nomadic life for farming, villages, and permanent homes, you might assume that the ...

This could have become more beneficial as we shifted from a hunter diet to a farmer diet, with more plants and grains.

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

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

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

The whole world could soon be seeing red. Instead of being the punchline, redheads will have the last laugh, as a new study ...

Scientists who analysed nearly 16,000 ancient remains suggest red hair and fair skin is favoured for vitamin D production ...

"Today we're really changing the force of selection across the world, leading less and less to natural selection and more and more to anthropogenic selection, selecting for species that can survive us ...

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

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

Multiple new studies are reshaping our understanding of how environmental pressures influence life on Earth. Ancient DNA research from tens of thousands of ancient and modern genomes reveals that ...