Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, ...

An analysis of ancient DNA and modern disease risk suggests some immune genes may reduce allergy risk rather than increase it ...

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

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...

Scientists analyze 22,000 genomes documenting hundreds of genetic changes due to natural selection over the past 10,000 years ...

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

A landmark genetic study analyzing nearly 16,000 ancient and modern West Eurasian genomes has revealed that human evolution ...

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 ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

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 ...

Something happened around 4,000 years ago in West Eurasia that made red-haired people more common.