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

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

A glass of milk can still mark a line through humanity. For most adults, drinking it brings discomfort because the body ...

There is something almost comforting about the old, schoolbook version of human origins. It had a single ancestral population ...

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

A landmark Nature study analyzing nearly 16,000 ancient and modern genomes from West Eurasia reveals that natural selection has intensified over the past 10,000 years. Researchers identified 479 gene ...

Long before humans became master hunters, our ancestors were already thriving by making the most of what nature left behind. New research suggests that scavenging animal carcasses wasn’t a desperate ...

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 ...

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA indicates that natural selection continued to shape hundreds of genes. By Carl ...