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

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

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

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 ...

The story of human evolution is far from a straight line — it’s a complex web of species, adaptations, and interconnections.

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

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 ...

Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution ...

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