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

What happens when natural selection, the most powerful process driving change in the living world, shapes artificial ...

The DNA blueprint we carry around with us today has been influenced far more by natural selection than we thought, a massive ...

DNA switches that predate humans and Neanderthals still influence how people speak today, offering new clues about language ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

A wave of new genetic research is transforming our understanding of human evolution, revealing that Homo sapiens likely arose from multiple interconnected populations in Africa rather than a single ...

A system once tied to DNA organization in cyanobacteria has evolved into a structure that shapes the cell itself. This shift ...

When Charles Darwin first proposed how evolution works in 1859, it seemed plausible. Tiny changes stack up over time, eventually leading a species to become something entirely different. Aside from ...

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

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.

Evolution works over millennia. Climate change is moving far faster. That mismatch is killing some of the planet's most vital ecosystems, from California's towering redwoods to the seagrass meadows ...

A series of recent studies using unprecedented ancient DNA datasets have revealed that human evolution is far more complex and recent than previously thought. Findings challenge the idea of a single ...