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

Prehistoric humans in Africa may have avoided areas infested with malaria-spreading mosquitoes, a new study suggests.

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

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 ...

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

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

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA indicates that natural selection continued to shape hundreds of genes.

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 ...

Genetic information from the "Dragon Man" skull has linked the fossil, found in China, to the Denisovans. - Hebei GEO University Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60 ...