Two landmark genomic studies have unveiled unprecedented insights into human evolution, revealing both the largest-ever Indigenous American genetic dataset and hundreds of recent genetic adaptations ...

A Harvard-led team analyzed nearly 16,000 ancient and 6,400 modern genomes from Western Eurasia, uncovering 479 gene variants shaped by natural selection over the past 10,000 years. The findings show ...

A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...

Learn more about Human Ancestor Quickly Evolved Regions (HAQERs), genetic regulatory regions that may have shaped language ...

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 ...

Ancient bones discovered in a cave in Casablanca, Morocco, could fill in some of the blanks about human evolution. The cave, known as Grotte à Hominidés, contains assemblages of jawbones, teeth, and ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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