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

A study of women and girls in a part of South Africa with high levels of HIV infection has shown that the virus has the ...

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

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 ...

Denisovans, a mysterious human relative, left behind far more than a handful of fossils—they left genetic fingerprints in modern humans across the globe. Multiple interbreeding events with distinct ...

A series of recent studies using unprecedented ancient DNA datasets have revealed that human evolution is far more complex and recent than previously thought. Findings challenge the idea of a single ...

Over the past 10,000 years, evolution in West Eurasia has selected for light skin, red hair and resistance to HIV in humans, according to a new study.

A skull fragment discovered over fifty years ago on the banks of the Elbe River in Germany has finally yielded its secrets. Long considered by some researchers to be a rare Neanderthal-modern human ...

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

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

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