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

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

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 ...

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

FRIEDRICH ENGELS’S essay on the origins of our species is today recognised as a foundational text, not just of Marxism, but of today’s physical and social anthropology.Like most of Engels’s ...

An international research team from Germany, the UK, and Greece has found evidence that wooden tools were used in Greece ...

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