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

A landmark genetic study analyzing nearly 16,000 ancient and modern West Eurasian genomes has revealed that human evolution has accelerated dramatically over the past 10,000 years. Researchers ...

A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...

Scientists analyze 22,000 genomes documenting hundreds of genetic changes due to natural selection over the past 10,000 years ...

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

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

The hiccups you’ve been cursing since lunch are older than you could ever possibly imagine — a ghost signal from ancestors ...

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping how our bodies heal, fight infection, and sometimes fail under extreme ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

The human body is often described as a marvel of "perfect design": elegant, efficient and finely tuned for its purpose. Yet, ...

Blushing is one behavior you may have wanted to eliminate completely, but there is a strong, adaptive reason why evolution ...