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

A growing number of discoveries are reshaping long-held ideas about human evolution, from unexpectedly early stone tools to ...

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

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

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

A landmark Nature study analyzing nearly 16,000 ancient and modern genomes from West Eurasia reveals that natural selection ...

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 ...

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

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

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis.Related video above ...

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 ...