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

For years, the story of recent human evolution looked relatively quiet. Scientists studying ancient human DNA had found only ...

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

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

A Harvard study indicates natural selection has favored red hair for millennia, suggesting redheads may become more common as ...

There’s a theory that many of us have an “inner Neanderthal.” The idea is that Homo sapiens and a cousin species once bred, ...

Ribosomal RNA (rRNA), made from many copies of ribosomal DNA (rDNA), is the core component that powers ...

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

Short tandem repeat profiling of bathwater showed that DNA quantity jumps sharply after a person is immersed in the water for ...

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

Scientists have long known that our skin is home to vast communities of bacteria, fungi and viruses. But knowing which ...