The scientific wonderers at What If fast-forward through millions of years of primate development to show the path that led ...

Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, ...

Are humans natural born runners? Here’s why evolutionary and anatomical evidence suggests running was more central to our ...

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

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...

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

A new study finds natural selection has reshaped hundreds of human genes in the past 10,000 years, driven by farming, disease ...

Neanderthals babies were bigger and grew quicker than typical modern infants, a team of scientists discovered.

Humans carry a surprising relic from deep evolutionary history, one that traces back to a tiny, one-eyed ancestor that lived ...

Outside of humans, orangutans are the primate outlier when it comes to long childhoods, reaching adulthood at eight to 10 ...