Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act ...
Over the past 10,000 years, evolution in West Eurasia has been selecting for light skin, red hair and resistance to HIV and ...
New 3D analysis of a German skull clears up decades of confusion, placing this human firmly in the modern family tree.
The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...
This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...
Ancient DNA reveals how farming accelerated human evolution, driving genetic changes over the past 10,000 years.
A study finds an increase in redheads over 10,000 years due to natural selection, highlighting ongoing human evolution and ...
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Study suggests red hair is a sign of human evolution
When you think about evolution, what comes to mind? Certainly, things like opposable thumbs are one factor here; so too is ...
Our bodies are not perfectly designed, but are a living archive of evolution. Anatomy reveals a historical record of ...
The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...
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The 'Hobbit' was real and it raises questions about human evolution
Homo floresiensis was discovered on the island of Flores and immediately challenged existing ideas about human evolution. Standing only about three feet tall, this species showed evidence of tool use ...
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