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

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

The research, part of the Indigenous American Genomic Diversity Project, combined newly sequenced genomes with existing databases to analyze a total of 199 contemporary Indigenous individuals from 53 ...

Multiple groundbreaking studies are rewriting timelines of human evolution, from genetic adaptations over the last 10,000 ...

A landmark genetic study analyzing nearly 16,000 ancient and modern West Eurasian genomes has revealed that human evolution has accelerated dramatically over the past 10,000 years. Researchers ...

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

There was a moment in human history when our entire existence may have desperately clung to a thousand or more people.

From epic poetry to game shows, from Stone Age axes to spaceflight, humans have the most complex cultures of any species on Earth. Since the time of Darwin, scientists have suspected that this culture ...

A new genetic study shows that cultural diversity in the so-called Southern Cone—the roughly triangular southernmost part of ...

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

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

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