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

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

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

In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...

Learn more about new research that analyzed 16,000 ancient genomes and discovered that natural selection hasn’t slowed down.

A study using ancient DNA has identified notable evolutionary adjustments to dietary, settlement, disease and other changes ...

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

Human brain cell evolution may be linked to autism, neurodiversity, according to a new study. Image credit: Lauren Lee/Stocksy Although we humans like to think of ourselves as the pinnacle of ...

Adaptation and evolution can steer the trajectory of a species with the slightest environmental change. Scientists in Chicago are mapping some fascinating evolutionary changes to local animals and how ...

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

Scientists in Chicago are mapping some fascinating evolutionary changes to local rodents — and how humans may have contributed to that change. Adaptation and evolution can steer the trajectory of a ...