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.

For years, the story of recent human evolution looked relatively quiet. Scientists studying ancient human DNA had found only ...

A large study of ancient DNA from nearly 16,000 people across more than 10,000 years has revealed that natural selection has ...

The genetic architecture of adaptation in natural populations has not yet been resolved: it is not clear to what extent the spread of beneficial mutations (selective sweeps) or the response of many ...