From the ability to detect the smell of wet soil to the scent of ripe fruit, the human olfactory system has evolved over ...

More than two years after H5N1 bird flu was first detected in U.S. dairy cattle, the virus has proven remarkably good at ...

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

Another complication is that sustained genetic variation does not emerge exclusively as a result of natural selection.

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

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

Francis Collins explains why many of history’s greatest scientists believed faith and science could work together.

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

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 ...

Dozens of new discoveries reveal that defenses evolved by bacteria and viruses billions of years ago still define our own ...