New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

A study of women and girls in a part of South Africa with high levels of HIV infection has shown that the virus has the ...

New research into Upper Paleolithic fossils from western Eurasia suggests that hybridization between ancient human groups was not a rare side event, but a major force in human evolution. By comparing ...

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Denisovans, a mysterious human relative, left behind far more than a handful of fossils—they left genetic fingerprints in modern humans across the globe. Multiple interbreeding events with distinct ...

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

Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act ...

Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution ...

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