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

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

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

The terms hominid and hominin are often used interchangeably, but they do not mean the same thing. Hominids include all great ...

A composite view of the Earth constructed by NASA from multiple satellite images Editor at Large Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and ...

The human body is full of evolutionary compromises. The loss of the tail may be one of the clearest examples of how change ...

A study finds an increase in redheads over 10,000 years due to natural selection, highlighting ongoing human evolution and ...

How far back in evolutionary history does kissing go? Through phylogenetic analysis, an international team of scientists found that kissing was likely present in the ancestor of all apes – which lived ...

A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations throughout their evolution. Ana Mateos and Jesús Rodríguez, scientists at the ...

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