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

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

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.

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

Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, behaviour and other traits. The biggest ever study of ancient human DNA shows ...

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

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 ...

The DNA blueprint we carry around with us today has been influenced far more by natural selection than we thought, a massive ...

Scientists have found that the crust beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift is thinning to a critical point, signaling that the ...

For a century, this theory of human origins has died and returned. To free it from limbo, we must disentangle its many ...