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

A landmark Nature study analyzing nearly 16,000 ancient and modern genomes from West Eurasia reveals that natural selection has intensified over the past 10,000 years. Researchers identified 479 gene ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Instead of being the punchline, redheads will have the last laugh, as a new study reports that humans have been constantly ...

Some of your most important life partners are the mitochondria that power all your cells. You and these little cellular powerhouses are in a 1.5-billion-year-old evolutionary relationship—but ...