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

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

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

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

When our distant ancestors first traded nomadic life for farming, villages, and permanent homes, you might assume that the ...

This overview traces the evolutionary timeline from the great apes to modern humans, explaining where hominids and hominins ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reconstruction of the crushed skull labelled Yunxian 2, which has features that are closer to species thought to have existed ...

Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, ...

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

Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution ...

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