A new study finds natural selection has reshaped hundreds of human genes in the past 10,000 years, driven by farming, disease ...

The idea behind this claim is that once humans achieved large enough brains and developed sophisticated cultures, cultural ...

Scientists previously thought only a handful of genes showed signs of selection in recent human evolution, but previous ...

Expiration is the mechanism by which options fulfill their purpose which is the transfer and resolution of risk over a ...

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

The human genome of West Eurasia has been far more affected by natural selection in the last 10,000 years than previously ...

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

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

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

The human body is full of evolutionary compromises. The loss of the tail may be one of the clearest examples of how change ...

WHAT BEGAN with strikes by America and Israel in Tehran has spilled across the Middle East. Iran has been hit thousands of times and struck back against neighbours with drones and missiles. The ...

A Crash Course In Human Evolution With Anthropologist Chris Stringer' What was the timeline of human evolution? What was our last common ancestor? In this quickfire special, anthropologist and ...