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

Researchers at almost 100 institutions supported the creation of the Max Planck Institute-funded EVApeCognition Dataset – ...

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 ...

Outbreaks of violence between chimpanzees have sparked fierce debate online about the origins of war in humans ...

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

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...

A massive study of ancient DNA from nearly 16,000 people across more than 10,000 years in West Eurasia reveals that natural ...

There’s more history in your blood types than you think, and it didn’t begin with humans. Here’s what we know about them, ...

New book explores the history, formation, and evolution of accents, explaining how they develop from social needs and ...

Curves aren't a trend, they're biology. Science reveals why many men prefer women with a few extra pounds, regardless of ...

Scientists previously thought only a handful of genes showed signs of selection in recent human evolution, but previous ...