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

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

A massive ancient DNA study reveals evolution didn’t stop — it sped up, reshaping human genes in just 10000 years ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary ...

Many people today simply assume that our evolution has quietly ended with the development of the modern human. It's easy to think that medicine, science, and modern living have made us "perfect" or ...

He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking out an existence in what is today central China. Sporting a squat neck and a big brain, he likely wielded tools made of stone and hunted or scavenged ...

A landmark Nature study analysing DNA from nearly 16,000 ancient and modern individuals in West Eurasia has revealed 479 gene variants shaped by natural selection over the past 10,000 years. Findings ...

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

The British geneticist Steve Jones has recently given a lecture at University College London entitled “Is human evolution over?” His answer to his own question is in the affirmative. I agree with ...