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

This overview traces the evolutionary timeline from the great apes to modern humans, explaining where hominids and hominins ...

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

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

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

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

Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

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

Researchers discovered that autism’s prevalence may be linked to human brain evolution. Specific neurons in the outer brain evolved rapidly, and autism-linked genes changed under natural selection.

A new study shows the virus could have doubled the frequency of genetic variants in a South African province if effective ...